Re: Thunder, bird chirping, other natural stuff...

April 13, 2012

I think in my experience that there is a critical mass point where if you

haven't had a chance to sit in silence and recharge for a time and have been

exposed too often to trigger stimuli that your triggers will grow and grow until

there is a point where any sound is triggering a response. I have had a number

of " episodes " like that. The only thing I have found that gets rid of it is to

spend an afternoon basically isolated and away from as much noise as you can.

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> More and more recently, thunder seems to be triggering my misophonia (theres a

storm going on as I write). It was bad enough when I found I couldn't be around

people anymore, but then the dog barking made my work outside impossible to

enjoy; I figured it was because dogs are, like, " man-made " (if you know what I

mean), and that by thinking this, I psychologicaly identified it as an intrusion

into the natural order. But then bird chirping started messing with me. Now

its thunder, and my nerves are wearing even thinner -_- This is something you

can't block out with soundproofing or earbuds. I'm gonna start calling this the

" lazarus disease " (is that taken?).

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April 19, 2012

I'm sorry you are reacting to nature. I'd hate that too. I kind of think we have

no choice in what we react to, and we make up these back stories like 'man-made'

to explain it to ourselves and try to make sense of a senseless disorder.

I have a neighbor with chickens or ducks who make some noise, and it doesn't

bother me at all. Dogs barking immediately drives me inside to turn on loud

music. It's irrational and I hate that about it too.