Can't stand listening to people eat! Posted: 12-14-07 18:50pm
I can't listen to people eat. I can't be
in the room when some one picks up a bag
of chips. If I'm in class, and some one
begins to chew on an apple or a sandwich
or a candy bar, I can't focus. It
elevates me to such a level of stress that
all the muscles in my shoulders and back
tense up. I get irate and generally angry
with the people eating, especially if I
know them personally. I can't watch
people eat or drink. I'm alright in a
cafeteria or somewhere else where there's
a lot of intense noise, otherwise, I need
to have head phones on. Other noises
bother me, and when people twitch. A boy
next to me in one of my classes jiggles
his leg a lot, and it makes me crazy,
enough so that I tune out of what the
teacher's saying and not matter what I try
to do, all I can think of is the jiggling
of his leg. If I'm driving with some one
(a lot of people in my family are
restless) and they start twitching,
tapping, messing with a zipper, moving
their legs, fingers or arms restlessly, I
can't focus. I just zero in on that
little thing and obsess over it. It makes
me hostile and edgy. Certain movements
become invasive to me, like when some one
rattles a can of Altoids to the beat of a
song. It just sticks out to me like a pin
in my side. There is almost no one I've
met thus-far that I can eat with
comfortably. My own boyfriend makes me
want to climb walls. My family now
excuses me from the table to eat my diner.
If I'm in a room and some one comes in
with food, no matter what I'm doing, I get
up and leave, right there. The sound of a
spoon scrapping or hitting a bowl
repeatedly gets me upset. My grandmother
has suggested I might have a sensory
issue. I'm beginning to think it might
not just be that I'm a jerk. Can any one
give me some information or suggest who to
talk to?
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samba88
Experienced User , Rather EHEALTHy
Joined: 21 Nov 2007 Posts: 51 Location: Southern, United States
Posted: 12-20-07 02:14am
Well it definatly sounds like somethings
going on in that brain of yours. My first
thought is that theres a chance this could
be a form of Obsessive Compulsive
Disorder, if you see some one about this
mention that as a possibility if they
don't first.
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stevie_fledgeling
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 14 Dec 2007 Posts: 2
Posted: 12-20-07 22:54pm
Thanks, really. Maybe I'll ask my school
nurse and see if I can go somewhere from
there... Do you think it can be medicated
or something?
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samba88
Experienced User , Rather EHEALTHy
Joined: 21 Nov 2007 Posts: 51 Location: Southern, United States
Posted: 12-22-07 02:42am
I'm not sure if it can be medicated, but I
do know you can go to groups or
specialists that can help you work through
that sort of thing, if that is what you're
going through.
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Georgia59
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Posted: 12-26-07 13:43pm
That's probably more of a cognitive
therapy thing.