Re: Having a hard time dealing with sound sensitivity

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---If it is any comfort to you, you are not alone.

>

> Thank you for your responses, they do mean a lot to me.

>

> It is funny, but the idea " there has got to be another good day in

my

> future however far off it may be " is exactly the thought that gave

me

> the strength to endure this condition when I was a teenager. It's

just

> now that I've gotten older it has become harder to endure and

another

> good day seems too far off in the future for it to be helpful in my

> life.

>

> About the only thing that saves me each day is going to sleep. I

find

> with me I do better with 10 rather than 8 hours or less. 10 hours of

> sleep is normal for some people, even though they say 8 is and that

> isn't really true. I have many vivid dreams every night that I

remember

> and in them 95% of the time I am free of 4S/Hyperacusis/Tinnitus.

>

> Sleeping is the only time I can exist without having to endure this

> condition. Strangely enough I have been having nightmares once or

twice

> a month lately where I do get tortured by sounds. A lot of time it

is

> family who is doing it and I tell them to please stop but they keep

on

> doing it to me anyway. I get so frustrated and angry in my dream

that

> I'll do anything to make the sounds stop.

>

> I feel like I'm sitting on the cliff now this morning looking down

into

> the abyss. I had very nice, but odd, dreams last night that helped

pull

> me out of the torture of yesterday somewhat. Although, in my dreams

I

> didn't know how I got there and didn't know where I was going, I

felt

> lost. Maybe that is how I'm feeling right now: I'M LOST. I still

don't

> know how to deal with this condition and have some semblance of a

> " normal " life at the same time. I still feel that will never happen

in

> my lifetime.

>

> -Randall

>