I become sensitive to noise when I'm feeling agitated, as a general across-the-board feeling. It's like my brain hones in on one noise and then another, jumping around, and it feels like it's grating on my brain.

The last time I was at work I noticed it happening. All of the customers were making so many noises.. sniffling, mumbling, shuffling. The coffee pots were trickling. The registers were making sounds. The music coming out of the ceiling felt louder than usual. The traffic outside. People talking all around me, in different tones and volumes and speeds. Someone smashing boxes in the back room a few feet away. And the lights in the store seemed insanely bright. I had to try really hard to focus on each customer in front of me and what they were saying.

I've been dealing with this sort of issue since I was a kid, though, so not sure that it's entirely BP related. I have to have a lot of white noise like a big box fan at night, or I won't be able to sleep.