Noise = Exhaustion

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I took my daughter to the animal shelter today to adopt a kitten. There were two, but we came home with none. The dogs were barking so painfully loud. Every bark from a particular set of dogs felt as if it went through me like a lightning bolt, and it literally numbed my mind. For me to adopt a kitten, I need to see if we connect. Maybe that sounds odd, but really. In that environment it was freaking impossible.

Thankfully the shelter has adoption Saturdays when they take selected animals out of the shelter to help boost adoptions. I'll wait for Saturdays. I'm never going back there again. I feel utterly exhausted from the experience, like I had no sleep all night then ran a marathon without eating. Now every little sound makes me want to punch something or scream.

Anyone else get this? It's like my sound sensory quota has been over-filled and now I have zero tolerance for ANY SOUND and my whole body is fatigued. This is hell.

I have experienced something similar with sound. Sometimes you can't tolorate sound and just want to resort.

Absolutely. Loud and unwanted sounds of any kind are horrible. It wears me out completely if I can't escape. The same thing goes for subtle sounds that keep on going since I can't block them out. Like if there's something going on in the house somewhere: My mind will analyze every little sound. As a result, I can't focus on what I'm doing... Totally understand you couldn't pick a kitten under such circumstances!

In Switzerland, able-bodied men are required to take part in a shooting exercise once a year until they're old enough to be released from military duty. I really, really hated the noise of the guns, even though we were required to wear earmuffs in the shooting gallery.

I've never been to a disco or rock concert in my life.

I live in a house with seven other people, which includes two babies. Both of them can be quite noisy, and when they cry for long periods of time, I start feeling tired and irritable.

i simply call this overload... I use my mp3 player and classical music to keep it from happening...

it happened to me the other day...

Someone was not very bright at my school the other day...

we had a disabilty career fair... they brought in different disability aid groups and sat them down at tables...

only they did it in the middle of the indoor university commons, instead of inside either the gym or the convention center, both of which are larger and more suitable to large groups of disabled people (some in mobility units) wandering around

loud, echoing voices, pushing and bumping into each other.... not a good thing

Yeah, I can understand how that would fry your nerve endings! We had a dog next door, that barked one night, non stop, for SIX hours. I ended up crying hysterically and having a major meltdown. The owners were out somewhere, and couldn't be contacted. And I was jumpy and sick all the next day.

Oh, yes. I've been doing very well for the last few weeks, but today was trying because of the noise thing. I generally live alone, but my sister, neice and grand-nephew came to visit for the weekend and we ended up driving around together so they could do some shopping. They all three talk non-stop, and I have trouble differentiating between different conversations going on at the same time. Half of what my sister said I couldn't hear clearly because of the other conversation going on in the back seat, and she always gets her feelings hurt if I zone out - she interprets my zoning out as deliberately ignoring her - so I had to force myself to concentrate on what she was saying while trying - unsuccessfully - to block out the other two and drive at the same time. I was exhausted by the time we got back to my house, and although I love them and am glad for the visit, I'm frankly just as glad they've gone home.

Too much noise is just awful. I particularly can't stand crowd noises. Once I get stressed out from noise, I get really hypersensitive to sound for a while afterward. It's like I can hear every little sound around me. When they were still living with me, I used to fuss at my grand-nephew because the television in the living room would keeping me awake when I was stressed - I could clearly hear the dialog from my bedroom through the closed door - only to find that he had the volume turned down so low that he was having trouble hearing it in the same room. Poor kid!

Patricia

It's odd- some days, even the tiniest of noise distractions can make me shudder inside; a conversation between two people can make me clench my fists, but at rock concerts, the closer I am to the speaker, the better I feel.

Standing next to a huge speaker and feeling- literally feeling- the bass pound my body is one of the best feelings ever.