Reply To: "You'll get to used the noise.", NO!

[Blue Yugo]

@Filmbuff1984 – I know that feeling!  People often tell me things like “Just ignore it.”  Well, if I could, I would!  I can’t…literally can’t!  Noises hijack my brain sometimes.  Snoring is the worst offender…and sometimes comes in the form of the person in the adjacent room at a hotel.  Worse…the person in the adjoining bed, which is why I can’t vacation with my sister any more.  Even just breathing in an otherwise quiet room annoys me.  Hammering…  Fingers clicking the buttons of a cell phone…  Kids mumbling to themselves…  The barely-audible scritching of someone’s earbuds…  It’s all maddening because I can’t choose to not listen to it and have my brain affix itself to the noise.  I used to go to group meditations, and I can’t any more.  This one’s sneaking a text message…that one’s breathing too loud…the one over there is scribbling thoughts down on paper while the rest of us are trying to have absolute silence and stillness.

In fact, this was a main point I wanted to bring up with my therapist and perhaps explore if medication can prevent my brain from attaching to those subtle annoying sounds.  Sadly, she’s spent the past 2 sessions psycho-analyzing my relations to my parents and sister, then my homework for tomorrow is to write down strategies I used as a kid to deal with the bullies who harrassed me in school.  What does any of that have to do with the fact that distractions and unregulated attention spans are hijacking my brain and making it hard to function currently in the workplace?  This includes the extremely maddening sounds like people tapping pens on desks, having iPods turned too loud, etc.  Asking me how I dealt with the fights between my dad and my sister has nothing to do with my ADD nor my problems with those pesky noises that prevent me from thinking what I’m supposed to be thinking.

– littleblueyugo

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