Sensory Awareness Month

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October is Sensory Awareness Month, woo If you are one of those people who go on and on about people wanting attention so they'll just claim they have something, probably be best if you left now;) Anyways I'm gonna talk about my mental disorder and all because I have wanted to speak about it on PMC for quite a while I just want to make the disorder more aware to people since it's a more recently discovered disorder and there isn't much we know about it yet I'll have some separate spoilers to keep it cleaner :-) My ongoing story I'm gonna try to keep it short and sort of professional looking because if I spoke everything, oh man, it would be very messy For about 5-6 years now I have knowingly been dealing with a disorder called Misophonia. The short definition that I have of it is that normal everyday sounds make you feel negative emotions But I can remember being annoyed by sounds from even all the way back into grade one. Back then it was just more of a like "oh that girl breathes really loud. thats a bit annoying." But now years later it isn't just an annoyance, now its like pure negative emotions, typically depression and anger. and when I say anger, I mean that feeling of wanting to hit someone oh so hard I've also broken down in class twice before from it so theres that :-) If you want to try and imagine how it feels imagine the worst sound you ever heard and imagine that basically every single day, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. It's hard to focus in class, it's hard to explain to a lot of people, I can't stand to eat with my family/friends at the table, and so on. It's makes me think about doing some very unhealthy things a lot too The only sort of healthier way that I found to kind of distract the sounds is by blasting music but I still want to have hearing when I'm like 30 years old. I'm seeing someone professional about it on Oct. 31st Only took my mother years of complaining and my brothers college psychology class The sounds that get me the most are * Sniffling * Chewing/Eating * Coughing/Sneezing * Throat clearing More information here Have some informal sites #1 #2 #3