Sensitive to others' tone of voice

Me too! That happens to me quite a lot, and also if there's any frustration or anger in a person's voice - even if it's two people near me arguing and I have nothing to do with it, it makes me feel stressed. (More so if I know them, because I'm likely to start worrying that it's somehow my fault.) So glad I'm not the only one, every time it happens I start beating myself up about it for being so pathetic, which just makes me feel even worse. I've been told before that I have some symptoms of social anxiety, so that might have something to do with it...

Hi Rio, good to see you!

It can be helpful when this happens to keep reminding yourself that whatever is going on with those people near you, it has nothing to do with you and nothing *is happening* to you. It helps me, so I thought it might help you too.

i too can relate to this, and if someone seams anything but friendly towards me in their tone of voice i panic and my anxity goes through the roof. i am terrified on people being angry at me particularly the ones that i care about.

I hope your anxity improves *hugs*

Thank you! I feel the same way. I was so close to leaving my job because my one manager is supposed to be on anti depressants. Without them, she becomes hostile. I talked to my boss and told him I was currently looking for a new job. He talked to the manager who was being hostile. She went back on her anti depressants. Been easier to work with her since.

I am also sensitive to people's tones. It irritates me if they seem angry or upset. I obessively think they're upset with me. It seems a bit ego centric. May be I'm a push over and want to please everyone. I don't know. Heck! I was even upset when I yelled at my cat for misbehaving and she refused to give me "lovings."

I can't comment about Klonopin however, this is SO hard - I call this my "sponge" behaviour..when I just suck up whatever another's feeling, anger, conflict anything that's is going on around me. Sometimes even if I'm not involved. I always want to avoid conflict. "Echoes" used the word "separateness". I agree, but I call it boundaries. Knowing where we start and another begins and what is acceptable for us. This (over)sensitivity also involves my co-dependency issues. All in all, I really need to work on "what's mine" and not let "what's" yours" undo me. Thanks for the reminders.