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Yah, don’t google. That is not helpful and can become very compulsive. My therapist has banned me from google. Lol!
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now i feel like im hyperaware of the sounds around me. i can't tell if they're genuinely bothering me or if im just unconsciously checking. i also don't want to go in my room rn because that was the room i was in when that happened and im scared something similar might happen again
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i went through this when i had my first panic attack . i’m hoping someone can say something that’ll help you and me both
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it's good to know we're together in this. im really worried i hope someone will see this and offer help :(
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me too i’m very hyper aware of my surroundings lately and it bothers me like it’s gotten better i’m going to start doing meditation and grounding techniques and also talk to my therapist ab it . if i learn something to help i’ll lyk . we are in this together !
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oh yes meditation sounds helpful i hope it works for you❤️❤️ also thank you!
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I had the exact same thing happen to me and I don’t have hearing issues - I don’t think. I started noticing it about 5 months ago when I upped my luvox dose - could be a coincidence. My episode was similar to yours - I woke up and noticed the fan and it sounded like chatter and I totally freaked out - like full panic attack. It only fed into my fear of “going crazy” and it has been my obsession and fear ever since. I find myself scanning for sounds, noticing white noise sounds, inserting my own scary narrative, looking for the source of perceived sound, etc. I consider this health ocd or part of my ocd theme. I spoke with my therapist about this and she said this was all related to ocd and yes, anxiety can be this convincing. The goal is to face the fear and expose yourself to the fear - in your case maybe that’s losing your hearing or other medical diagnosis? We need to sit with the anxiety and possibility as well as expose ourselves to what we fear. It’s incredibly hard and when you are in it, it feels SO REAL! Know that you aren’t alone!
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thank you for sharing! i terribly relate to the part about the chattering sound, it was really scary at the moment and also the part about trying to scan sounds.. the reason why im actually concerned is because my hearing's always been a little crappy and as i said many of my family members have hearing issues - and by hearing issues i mean mediocre hearing or sensitivity to loud sounds, only my 50+ yo old relatives have actually gotten a medical diagnosis or have lost part of their hearing. so im a little conflicted because the possibility of me actually having something going on isn't unlikely. i went to the doctor in september because my ears were really sensitive and i felt pulses on my eardrums or something like that, and i was prescribed some ear drops and had an earwax removal session and then i was fine which was weird because i thought i had something serious. sorry for rumbling i just don't know if i should treat this as an obsession or actually be real about it
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Yah, this is a tough one. But, here’s the thing - if you have a hearing condition or not, does it matter? Meaning, you will deal and still live a full and happy life! It sounds like you have tinnitus type symptoms, but many people with anxiety experience ringing, whooshing, etc. it’s a moving target - is it because you are hyper aware of the sound or is it “louder” than what others experience? Anyway, I did a ton of research on this - hearing (BAD compulsion), but some of it was helpful: 1. It’s not uncommon to hear chatter or even radio sounds in fans or even hairdryers. It’s been reported by others with anxiety. Our brains fill in the gaps and try to make sense of sound. 2. People mishear things from time to time! This is part of being human! Ask anyone and they will say they have experienced this. Just last week my daughter said, “are the dogs barking outside?” I didn’t hear it. And she’s completely healthy. 3. Consider sound therapy. Expose yourself to sounds - I’ve used a white noise apps as exposures. Anyway, not sure if that is helpful, but our senses are affected when we are anxious. That is our body’s normal reaction to a threat - heightened hearing and sight. If you have been to the doctor to rule out hearing loss/issues, let it go. Don’t keep going “back to the well” in hopes of fulfilling your worst fears. I catch myself doing this a lot. I have a symptom or thought and think I need to confess it to my therapist with the “hope” she’ll tell me it’s normal or even fulfill my worse fear. This is a compulsion. If you are truly worried about your hearing, make an appointment. Get a diagnosis or non diagnosis and then let it go. Don’t keep revisiting it and rexaming “new” symptoms.
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thank you again for commenting! true im not even sure if that chattering sound was coming from my ear or the devices i was surrounded with because i got so anxious lol but either way this is the only time this has ever happened to me so.. yeah🤷♀️ and also i think i was just hyperaware, i tried to draw my attention to the sounds around me to see whether they were bothering me or not which is dumb because of course it's gonna bother me a little if i focus on them, i think. also thank you for doing that research that's very sweet, i might try sound therapy through apps, i'll see. if i keep feeling weird the next week ill probably book an appointment with my doctor but either way im always told i need my earwax removed for some reason,, but it surprisingly solves the problem every time. it sounds strange to me because if i were to google my symptoms id end up thinking ive got a tumor or something tragic. once again thank you so much for replying ill take your advice into account!
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It started when I became an adult, and started receiving my mental health diagnosis. I hyper fixated on each and every action I did and how it could be related to my diagnosis’s. It then lead to fixation to my physical health — making appointments and seeing every specialist I can to rule out every possibility. I currently have been suffering with obstructive sleep. I woke up the past few days with severe pain from the lack of sleep whilst believing I was oversleeping. Luckily my fit watch tracks my sleep cycle and it turns out I am not receiving any sleep. I had an extreme panic attack — bursting into tears on the phone with my mom wondering what this case might be. She told me it could be sleep apnea and that a simple sleep study could figure this out. However, knowing my family history I made appointments to every specialist I can to make sure it is nothing serious. The unknown of health can be scary to me. Watching my mother suffer with her physical health chronically since I was a child lead me to be very conscious and aware of how my body is functioning. This morning was one of the worst moments of physical pain. I should just take one step at a time with the sleep doctor instead of taking measures to see every specialist that could pertain with this issue. However, that is very hard to me. I don’t want to ever wake up in the pain I was this morning. Does anyone else suffer with health-related OCD? And if so, how do you find a sense of ease during moments like I expressed?
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I don't know what to do anymore, the fear of psychosis and schizophrenia is so bad in so hyper aware of everything I hear and everything I see, I've always had eye floaters now I convince myself that it's really me hallucinating, I've always had tinnitus but now I'm convinced it means I'm going to go crazy soon, I can't sit in quiet because all I'm focusing on is what I'm hearing, and searching for any sounds I can't distinguish, when there's background noise I get so anxious if I think I heard something but im not sure I did or I'm just anxious, I'm terrified I'll start having delusions and sometimes my brain confuses some sounds for other sounds for example say I'm hyper focused and I breathe and my nose makes a whistling sound my mind interprets it as a scream and I freak out thinking I'm hallucinating only to focus closer and realize it's my own breathing, earlier I was so anxious that I couldnt tell if I had an intrusive thought or heard something, I don't know how to make it stop, I've been through this theme before I just forgot how hard it was I'm having a panic attack please help
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