Anyone Ever Go Yell At A Bird For Singing To Loud Outside Your House?

[LA LISA MAGDALENO]

I did. I had not slept in days and finally crashed. It was morning daylight. This bird was only doing his thing you know? But me birds and flowers I cannot relate to anymore and he was loud and keeping me up. I actually (im sure my neighbors thought I was nuts) went outside and yelled at him in not very nice language. I feel so not part of the beautiful things in life. I know it is beautiful but in my heart their is only blackness.

 

[Hashi]

I sympathise with you. My neighbour's kids can do that to me, especially when they sleep in a tent in their garden then get up and start shouting around 5.30am.

I'm sorry you've stopped relating to birds and flowers. I feel separate from a lot of things that used to have attraction or meaning for me. I just have to hope it will come back to me some day, and that the same will be true for all of us.

 

[Sheer Force of Will]

Its fine for me if there are a bunch of birds but when there is only one, it is SO F***ING ANNOYING.

 

[Nadege]

I sleep in hunting earmuffs. Try it before you laugh.

 

[Hashi]

Nadege, can you lie on your side?

 

[Deleted member 12723]

Ear plugs?:rolleyes: :confused:

 

[Nadege]

Nadege, can you lie on your side?

Absolutely. The muffs have a leather cushion inside, and the outside fits into the pillow. (I do have one of those special expensive pillows though, and my muffs are women's/teenagers' size.)

 

[Spiderallis]

The birds drive me batty if I'm trying to fall asleep when they start chirping. Until I saw the hunter earmuffs I'd been considering bottle rocket firecrackers... Great idea, thanks Nadege!

 

[heidi]

No, but I keep worrying I'm going to fly off the handle at annoyingly loud people.

 

[maddog]

For me it's my neighbours' dogs, who bark endlessly, night and day, and who have come perilously close to incurring my wrath on a number of occasions.

As genuinely annoying as I know they are, it troubles me deeply to know how irritable and easily enraged I am about very trivial things. Honestly, the slightest annoyance or irritation can send me to levels of spontaneous rage that make me want to smash things and scream obsenities at anyone close enough to hear. It's frightening, and distressing, and I'm not doing a good job at keeping on top of it at all.

Something in the original post here made me really sad, something about the irritation at something in nature that really should be so pure and simple and good. I think I feel that way a lot lately, annoyed and almost resentful of beautiful and simple things, like children, and people laughing, and so many things that seem to make other people so happy. It makes me really sad, and deepens my feelings of isolation and aloneness in the world, and makes me wonder if i'm turning into the endlesly bitter angry person I never wanted to be.

Maddog

 

[lisamarie]

Never done it, but have wanted to!!!!

 

[SillyMe]

I have totally done that too! Once, I even threatened the bird with a bb gun (didn't actually shoot though, since I would never hurt a living thing like that :cautious:)

I too have lost my ability to enjoy simple things when my anxiety is at a peak. I have these rose bushes outside that my kids planted for me one year for mother's day. Truly beautiful and they bloom and smell lovely. However this year, I can't even work up the energy or interest to even go out and look at them some days, much less cut them and bring them in the house. It sucks that our anxieties do this and takes away small pleasures that others take for granted.