Sound Triggers

[bshaw96]

Sorry for all the questions, but am trying to educate myself here. I just read a post about sound triggers. I have NEVER been able to listen to the blow dryer on low for long without feeling like I was about to have a panic attack. I remember b/c as a preteen, I had long hair that I would blow dry on low and the sound would drive me crazy. I also cannot listen to any kind of humming/vibrating or heaven forbid the clock ticking. Ive told people this and they just give me this "you really are weird" look. I can really trace that all the way back to about 10. That is so wild. Sounds can really trigger these episodes?

 

[meh]

Sorry for all the questions, but am trying to educate myself here. I just read a post about sound triggers. I have NEVER been able to listen to the blow dryer on low for long without feeling like I was about to have a panic attack. I remember b/c as a preteen, I had long hair that I would blow dry on low and the sound would drive me crazy. I also cannot listen to any kind of humming/vibrating or heaven forbid the clock ticking. Ive told people this and they just give me this "you really are weird" look. I can really trace that all the way back to about 10. That is so wild. Sounds can really trigger these episodes?

I don't know what doctors
would say about it, but I think noises can
cause an episode or something to happen.
For me it's the vacuum cleaner. Although we
got a new one recently and it's not as hard
for me to handle as the old one. Plates and
dishes clanking together also puts me on
edge, as do groups of people being noisy
and everyone talking over each other.

I do find sound is harder for me to handle
when I'm tired. But I can also be in a good
mood and get around these noises and
suddenly I'm in a bad mood.

I can't really explain it. Maybe our brains
become over-stimulated? I don't know. But
I really do understand what you mean.

 

[bshaw96]

I don't know what doctors
would say about it, but I think noises can
cause an episode or something to happen.
For me it's the vacuum cleaner. Although we
got a new one recently and it's not as hard
for me to handle as the old one. Plates and
dishes clanking together also puts me on
edge, as do groups of people being noisy
and everyone talking over each other.

I do find sound is harder for me to handle
when I'm tired. But I can also be in a good
mood and get around these noises and
suddenly I'm in a bad mood.

I can't really explain it. Maybe our brains
become over-stimulated? I don't know. But
I really do understand what you mean.

Yep, me too. (from good to bad automatically) It was the hardest thing for me to try and explain as a child, finally just quit trying. I know it shouldn't be so exciting to me, but since I was diagnosed with BP, Ive done tons of research, mostly hoping they were wrong I guess. But I can now look back over my life and go
"THAT'S ME!!" Now that I am adjusting to the diagnosis, and coming out of the denial phase, it's kinda comforting to at least have a reason for the symptoms I have felt.

 

[Shalia]

AAACK! NOISE!!! I've literally been sent home from work in panic attacks multiple times due to noise. I'm trying to convince people to pay for hearing training stuff, but my insurance says "I should feel blessed" to have "really good hearing", and not consider it a problem. Right. But deaf people aren't missing 10-15 days of work a year due to sound levels!!

Any high pitched beep or ring will literally drive me nuts. I've threatened to kill people because they were making beeping noises. I made my workplace buy a new printer because one here made a high pitched squeal every time it was used. My level of pain for high sounds is about where most people can HEAR it. It REALLY REALLY stinks.

I was told by the audiologist that I saw that earplugs are about the worst thing we can do <check out online info on hyperacusis for information> so don't get used to earplugs. Probably why I'm so sensitive.

But sound definately induces panic attacks and serious anger. AGH! <And they just moved me into a REALLY noisy area at work. GRR.>

 

[Alive again]

Yep, if I'm stressed, overwhelmed by emotions, then noise can send me over the top, esp gratiing or repetitive noises and the old rock music will do it even when i am not stressed!!!

 

[TiReMi]

My niece, who is bipolar, hates repetitive noises... and the vacuum cleaner. They'll make her have an episode faster than most things will.

 

[goldenviolet]

i have a zillion noises i can't stand. when i was growing up it was mainly running water. picture that! i use to start screaming. (poor caretakers)

 

[s_gunter]

I HATE repetitive noises!! Especially that "beep beep beep" you hear in a car if you leave your lights on, or leave the keys in the ignition, etc. The second one that gets me is the vacuum cleaner, so much so that I cannot vacuum the house myself. Whenever it needs to be done, my husband does it, and I leave the house for about 30 minutes.

There's also a lot of music I can't stand. Anything loud, for starters. Also, anything high pitched,which is ironic, since I used to play the flute.

 

[angelkiss]

The dinging bell on the inside of a vehicle will drive me nearly insane real quick. I can't stand it when a bunch of people talk at the same time in a small enclosed area. Sometimes, kids will come over and get my dog's squeaky toys and start squeaking them non-stop. Drives me crazy! I think the one thing that gets to me the most is when two or three people are talking to me at the same time. When I can't keep up, I start wigging!

 

[Shalia]

ACK! Dinging on vehicles, forgot that. Evil evil sound!

And modern music has decided that adding binging noises to their songs would make it sound "hip". Like "People Get Ready" by Crystal Lewis. It has that high pitched beep through the whole song, and if you use headphones, it's ONLY in the right ear. WHY THE HECK WOULD THEY DO THAT?!?!? I can't even listen to it anymore. Which stinks, cause it's a good song. *sigh*

Vacuums I can live with, but noisy traffic drives me nuts. Squeaking does, drills do. I just hate all noise.

 

[Anna N. Amos]

Noise is a huge factor in migranes and some say there is a connection with bi-polar and migranes.

Bi-polar and left temporal lobe siezures and Bi-polar and panic attacks.

There can be clusters of symptoms and one thing in common seems to be bi-polar.

Hard thing to live/deal with.

Depakote was helpful in our home when my hubs took it.