Does Sound Make Your Anxiety Worse?

[rosered]

loud bass, like mac said, makes my body shake inside and too many noises at once puts me on overload. my trauma had nothing to do with a noise or noises, so I guess if one's trauma involved a noise, it would even have a worse effect on them.

 

[Linda]

Hi, I'm new here, glad to see you all.
Yes, the sound is a real problem for me. I HATE the sound of rap music (or whatever is called, I do not know much about it I just know it drives me CRAZY) :angry-fla :gunem-dow Probably bacause I was hearing the very similar music many years ago, when the story which brought me here happaned.

 

[mac]

The bass goes BOOM and real bombs meant to kill you go BOOM. A real bomb blowing up out in the distance gives avery similar report to that of the car audio Boom. I don't jump for cover, I just freeze for a second and my mind starts remembering back over there. My attitude instantly starts to change for the worse and I am irritated towards using a weapon or simple confrontation to end the inconsiderate noisemakers!:boxem: :gunem-dow

 

[mac]

Before I got out the military, I was assigned to go shoot the M-16. If the medical leadership new about it, I don't think they would have let me as I was awaiting discharge for PTSD. Out there at the range, we were all lined up side by side. Had to shoot different positions with/without Gas Masks on. The last time I shot was right before deploying in 2003... I had scored 'Expert' many times before. This day would be the last day I ever fire an M-16 as an active duty troop. As soon as the light went Red, everyone started shooting. I had my headprotection on, but everytime a shot was fired from the other guns it stalled :eek: me like I was in schock. Hearing the Boom, Boom-Boom from the other guns around me and feeling the small blast waves took me right back to Iraq. :redface: The first round of fireing, I didn't even shoot- I was like in too much schock and just layed still in the prone position. :frown: After everyone shot away their ammo, the armory instructor asked if I wanted to continue, and I told him "yea." So he let me fire off all my rounds and I scored perfect hits. I was pretty tweaked about the situation and my focus was sharp as hell. The armory instructor had the whole group go through a number of shooting positions, to include wearing a Gas Mask for one... shooting a total of 50 rounds. My adrenaline was kicking in full gear and I was able to concentrate keenly on those silhouette targets (simmed from 25m - 300m) that out of 50 rounds I missed once... it would be a highest score for students, and better than I ever done. :clap: I remember thinking proper sight picture, hold, breathe, and squeeze, to kill the target before it kills me. I think this is one time my symptoms worked fir me.:die:

 

[Portabella]

I hate repetition. (a pencil tapping, a finger tapping, clicking, loud chewing of food, crunching).

I also hate loud boom noises, I too jump out of my skin. I hate balloons.

I hate the fourth of july. I enjoy the fireworks from inside a vehicle through the windsheild.

 

[No-Twitch-Tabitha]

OMG, speaking of July 4th...those sons of....you know the ones -- they have to set off the fireworks right outside your window. You just want to :gunem-dow !

Or the idiots who start their celebrations early...like 4AM. Just after you get to sleep...:cussing:

 

[No-Twitch-Tabitha]

Lately I'm having a lot of trouble with the telephone ringer. I turn it completely off or unplug the telephone all together. It just startles me so much whenever it rings. When it's connected, I spend most of the day worrying that it's going to ring and scare me. I also disconnected the doorbell. It drives my family crazy.

I forgot...I keep my cell phone on vibrate or silent. I can't stand ringtones, even other people's ringtones get on my nerves.

 

[BassistKara]

The main sounds that make my anxiety worse are when i hear people yelling, fighting, screaming, hitting, swearing, slamming doors...i always end up having a panic attack when i hear those, even if its just one or two of them...
I also get really anxious/paranoid when i hear noises outside or around me that arent usually there, especially at night...
Both of them make me think that my trauma is about to happen all over again...its quite scary actually

 

[No-Twitch-Tabitha]

I notice that I tense right up when I hear voices raising.

The really funny thing is that I get really anxious when I hear low voices behind closed doors. Because my parents used to argue like that. You could feel the tension and they would pretend that nothing was happening.

 

[Marlene]

I don't go to the movies anymore because the noise in the theater totally overwhelms me.

People yelling (especially in anger) really bothers me and it never did before...not sure why it does now.

Last night my husband was fixing my daughter's radio and when he got it fixed, it was turned on (had been left on) and was LOUD. About pulled me out of my socks and he was in another room!

Noise never bothered me before. Now...oh yeah.

 

[BassistKara]

I notice that I tense right up when I hear voices raising.

The really funny thing is that I get really anxious when I hear low voices behind closed doors. Because my parents used to argue like that. You could feel the tension and they would pretend that nothing was happening.

I get like that when i hear the low voices behind closed doors too...as you said you could feel the tension, and it was just rise and rise and then become completely unbareable to the point where id end up drinking myself to sleep most of the time.

 

[goingonhope]

The members of my family speak loud, and seem to do a lot loudly, and because the art of not interrupting is yet to have been mastered I often get two or three people talking to me, or requesting something of me simultaneously and my anxiety goes up, as I cease to be able to think, or even be heard, and then I'm startled and sometimes overcome with my frustration; Overcome, ....especially if and when one or the other, (or all) is impatient and/or gets hurt or angry with me for not responding to them quick enough.