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are you guys all working? because i'm sure not.

just to stay vaguely on topic. part of my OCD issues is noise sensitivity, not being able to control my environment, and included in that is if someone is playing music or listening to loud TV upstairs or something. i completely lost my **** when we moved to a new noisy apartment earlier this year, which is why i started getting treatment in the first place.

right now however there is a massive party going on two doors down with extremely loud music, and i am feeling chill. boy am i grateful for this.

[cantstopcrying]

At the time you posted (1 something a.m. my time) I was thanfully sleeping...though as usual awoke at 2:06 for no reason.

[Fuzzybear]

[jbug]

I am here....bad case of insomnia again *sighs* I will be glad when my body decides that night time is for sleeping and daytime is for getting things done.

I know what you mean about noise sensitivity....my new neighbor has a subwoofer and I finally had to go have a friendly chat with him about it. I was tired of all the thumping day in and day out. I didn't realize that was an OCD thing.

Jbug

[multipixie9]

is noise sensitivity really a part of ocd? not that i need any more dx to add to the roster of my "conditions". i've had a lot of trouble handling it when my neighbors bass is going on for hours and hours. i often (politely) ask my hubs to turn the tv down. football games make me want to scream at the persistently over-emphasized words and background noise of the crowd...i just thought i was a crank. i hate noisy places and occasions and can be perfectly happy all alone and in complete silence. good grief. sigh.

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i don't know if noise sensitivity is officially an OCD thing. my therapist said that she knew some OCD people who were really sensitive to noise, but the pdoc didn't mention it. it is definitely a thing for me because of the checking. at my worst i couldn't do anything unless i was sure it is quiet even in other parts of the house, which, when you live on the ground floor in a busy neighborhood, is a problem. like I'd sit down to work and then have to get up and go check if i could still hear the neighbors' tv in the other room, even if i couldn't hear it in the room where i was working, and it was just an infinite loop.

also in our old apartment, the bedroom was right next to the front steps and people used to sit out there and talk all the time. not at night so much, but like, if I knew they were out there when I was going out, i had to keep coming home to check if they were still there. or wait till they left, go out then come home to make sure they didn't come back.

god i get weird and teary even remembering this. it sounds so petty and stupid but it was so awful.

part of the reason they said it was ocd was because earplugs didn't help. i used them all the time but had to keep taking them out to check if there was noise somewhere. i spent lots of money on custom ones and on noise machines. i got an ear infection. etc.

i have fewer checking issues now, partly from treatment but partly because we left that place. that was hard too because one of the things i get weird about is money, whether we'll have enough, no matter how much we have, and i thought it was so horribly extravagant to move twice in four months. a lot of people would say it was but it was cheaper than hospitalization, and that is where it was going.

i also really hate football games and bass. honestly. getting out of that neighborhood was really what had to happen. i can't even drive past that place now.

since you asked. oh wait you didn't.