RE: Re: Just curious....a poll of sorts

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Hi ,

Thanks for your response. Good to hear that you had a mild day

yesterday, maybe your blocked ears helped that one out, but whatever the reason

it is a relief im sure.

OCD seems to be a common factor here, I don’t think at

this stage we are clutching at straws but more finding connections that we

thought were irrelevant before. I do not have OCD (that I am aware of anyway J )

but there are times when I check that the door is locked 3-4 times, I believe this

is partly from just forgetting as my mind is else where.. My girlfriend on the

other hand, who is also suffering from 4S does have OCD to some extent, weather

it be taking one step with one foot then having to another or other small

things, but nothing very large at all.... hmmmm I think I am going to go and do

some research on this and see what things turn up.

Look on the bright side, at least your house never burnt down as

a child Your parents should be thanking you for that.

Rich

From: Soundsensitivity

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Subject: Re: Just curious....a poll of sorts

,

I wish I knew what causes the milder times, but I really

don't. I have a few conjectures, but that's it. Stress, diet,

etc--nothing earth shattering.

I had a pretty mild day yesterday--I was home all day with

a cold, and my kids and husband were with me. I felt great, noise-wise,

most of the day, but I suddenly got very stressed out and annoyed for a few

minutes in the evening. My son has asthma and was making some funny

throat noises, and even though I can usually handle these because they're

relatively rare, I couldn't stand to hear them. I left the room,

stormed around the kitchen for a bit, slammed a cupboard door to vent, and

then I was fine. What the heck?

Thinking back, I remember hearing a noisy truck running outside

just before that. I wonder if that, combined with the throat

noises, pushed me over a threshold. I just couldn't take it anymore and

had to leave.

It's worse if I think about the source of the

sound too much. I have another neighbor with a noisy truck, and I

don't mind it too much because I don't hear it that often. She started

it up yesterday, and I started thinking about the truck and whether it's

noisy because it's broken or if it's purposeful, and whether she's thought

about fixing it, etc, and I started getting really annoyed at the

sound. Maybe it's another link to OCD--I tend to obsess about the

reason and source of my trigger sounds. I don't think I have true OCD,

but I do check things more than most people. When I was a kid, I used

to check every single baseboard heater in the house before I went to bed,

because I saw a fire movie at school showing a towel draped over a space

heater igniting a house fire. Probably not normal???

I just realized I missed the first two poll questions

somehow. My age of onset was 8 or 9, and I'm pretty sure beause I

remember trying to plug my ears in my 4th grade classroom to shut out the

sniffing. In fifth grade, I had a substitute teacher who made a big

show of passing out tissues to everyone after recess. I loved

her. She must have had 4s too.