[quote=shelterdog71;1660671]Just wondering if anyone else here suffers from 4S?

Per their website (which I can't post a link to because I'm a new member):

"Selective Sound Sensitivity Syndrome or 4S is an intense and immediate emotional and physiological reaction (possibly rage, frustration, sadness, or panic) upon hearing certain sounds - most prominently noises associated with oral functions such as eating, breathing, chewing or other noises such as typing sounds or pencils scratching."

How is this not just a trigger that could be addressed by therapy of one sort or another, or is that what the explanation is, according to what you read? I feel and have felt some of what you describe, but I can generally connect the dots as to why I have the reaction I do. The fact that the sounds, according to your post, are 'oral' or [outcomes of] or other, human activity makes me wonder if maybe the root problem is with the person or whoever the person represents and the 'safe' outlet for the discomfort is to hate the sound and not to recognize - or not to be able to face - it is the person one has the problem with? I know someone who has a whole, long list of hates and 'immediate, intense reactions' but who also has a list of specific life choices that have brought her to her present miserable situation, including that long list of hates. I don't mean to be lecture-y; I'm genuinely trying to understand.