[tlynn721]

Most of my life clicking sounds have annoyed me. Gum cracking used to be the only one though. What was once a minor annoyance now actually enrages me. Whenever someone is making any kind of "clicking" sound it makes me insane! My friends tell me "just ask them to stop" but they don't understand the rage that I feel.

This is particularly bad right now because my boss has a habit of clicking her nails together and tapping. I'm ready to quit my job because it makes me so nuts. I can't afford therapy and I have no idea what to do about this. Can anyone help?

P.S. I'm posting here because I used to have severe panic attacks but have them under control now...I'm wondering if this is related as well.

[OnEdge]

Hi, tlynn: Not sure about the clicking sounds in particular. What I can tell you is that as I've been working through my high anxiety over the past several weeks, ANY noise annoys me. I'm hypersensitive to anything loud or repetitive. A crying baby almost puts me over the edge. It has gotten a lot better. I can listen to the radio now without the hair standing up on the back of my neck!

[tlynn721]

Any suggestions on what I can do to help it not be so bad? I'm very anti-meds.

[partlycloudy]

Hello,
I was having a hard time with ambient sound - traffic, birds, construction, you name it, it was bothering me. It became a real focus for me when speaking with my pdoc and therapist - What Can I Do????

For me, the answer lay in finding something else to do. It seems that whenever I'd be having a problem with a local sound, if I concentrated on something else - anything!! Dinner, decorating projects at home, my pet; my thoughts would be off on this other tangent, and I couldn 't even *hear* the noise, although I tried my hardest.
Just my experience.
partlycloudy