A cousin was bullied unrelentingly both at school and at home. Why? No idea--he seemed like a great guy to me & I never heard anything negative about him, until he joined the Navy during the Korean "police action."
While training in Jacksonville, he suddenly turned up at our door early one morning--AWOL. He was sober but in all other ways a mess. "I can't go back," & "don't tell my folks," was all he could say. Most sounds he jumped at, which he apologized for.
My mother took on his family while my father called the local U.S. Congressman (a good friend, thank god), who personally got him to the best naval psychiatrist in the area. He was given a medical release because of childhood trauma resulting in untreated obsessive-compulsive disorder. His obsessions focused on mostly normal noises, which had always annoyed him--things most people cane tune out but he couldn't ... He seemed to hear them more focused and piercing. So he was in treatment for two years, then discharged.

Please understand that I'm not suggesting that you were abused or bullied--or are now experiencing OCD!! My cuz lives in a big Sports city, though, and still gets group counseling for this--usually at a sports bar. His wife swears it's the reason they're still together. But for many it's simply a hearing disorder.

Just another oddball angle of this mental illness world. At least we're all in it together, eh? Illness loves company?

But YES, absolutely ... check up till you're satisfied!!

Roadie