Okay, so I have a sister who I share a room with and she always goes to bed around 11 PM. However, sleeping next to her is complete torture. She does this thing where she sniffs extremely loud. It's not a regular sniff, but she has shown that she can sniff normally. She also has shown that she doesn't NEED to sniff that damn loud.

So for the past week and a half I haven't been able to sleep properly because everyday around 5 or 6 AM, she starts sniffing really loudly. She goes to work in the mornings and she usually doesn't get up and start getting ready till about 8:30 AM. So she'll lay there, awake, sniffing for about 2 or 3 hours until she finally gets up!

When she sniffs like that it wakes me and scares me out of my sleep. I am NOT a light sleeper and our other sister has even told me that sometimes it sounds like our door is open because she can hear her sniffing from the other room. So when my sleep is suddenly disturbed in this fashion, I get anxious which just turns into full-fledged rage. Then I can't stop the violent images in my head I have of wanting to beat her face in or something.

I have thought about talking to her about this, but every time someone tries to point out something to her she feels like she's "being attacked". So the last thing I want to do is try to talk to her only for her to get angry, start yelling, and want to fight me or something.

I just started seeing a PCP, who referred me to a clinic that treats mentally ill patients. My appointment is this upcoming Wednesday and I'll have to go through an intake process and be screened for the first time ever. However, all of that seems so far away.

I'm thinking about talking to my doctor about a sleep aid and I'm considering getting earplugs because this is ridiculous... So far I've been dependent on Benadryl to sleep through the night. Unfortunately, her noise still wakes me, but the drowsy side-affects allows me to return to sleep as soon as I have woken up.

When she would sniff during the day it wouldn't bother me because I'm awake. But after being rudely awakened and having rage attacks in the early hours of the morning for a week and half, her sniffing has started to bother me during the day now too. And now every time I hear it, regardless of what time of day it is, I get extremely angry.

And no...I can't move to a different room.