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Indeedly, so it's all about sound pressures and frequency tolerance.

Someone tried to tell me it was completely psychological, even so that makes no sense, my feelings of unbalance have nothing to do with emotions/mentality.

Your lip popping is obnoxious but it won't cause me to puke on you. Terminal Choice is a band I like to listen to, but more than one or two songs will make me feel sick.

>:c no you~

but srsly
No, that's definitely not purely psychological...

No, I'm pretty confident it's an inner ear or ear to brain problem. But she was all "That's not a normal reaction and nausea and being upset are because you're probably associating the sound with something you don't like, you should talk to a psychiatrist not a doctor!"

Nah, I'd go to a doctor about that first.

Indeed, it feels just like my thing with heights and I'm kinda sensitive to feeling off balance and disoriented. Not to mention I pretty frequently feel like my ears need to pop or something. All stuff that can be caused by a screwy inner ear.

These problems developed some time after that one girl broke a bottle over my head during that sleep over some years ago. I thing she might have knocked something loose. Prior to that event I'd never really had any issues.

o _o Yeah, that'll do it.

I dunno what the cause of mine would be...

Who knows, stuff of that nature might just be normal for some people, even if it's not....typical.

But yes, I have suffered a head injury and I'm exhibiting symptoms of vestibular hyperacusis. DOCTOR is definitely more appropriate that PSYCHOLOGIST.

Indeed.

I wouldn't consider it normal. :s

Well most people I know have some kind of deeply averse reaction to at least one thing, be it a smell, a sensation or a sound. My friend Amber says that the smell of most perfumes make her feel really angry and irritable and smothered and my friend Brandon absolutely cannot tolerate the sound of coughing or multiple people talking at once. He has to leave the room because it unsettles him. One of my other friends won't touch woolly things or tolerate physical contact with them because the texture makes her feel itchy and gross.

...and none of that is normal.

But I wouldn't really consider it abnormal, aside from that one thing that bothers them there's nothing really wrong with any of them, I wouldn't say they need help.

To be bothered to such an extreme degree by a perfectly normal thing is an issue all on its own. It may or may not be tied to deeper problems, but it's definitely not the same as just disliking one particular thing and is not typical.

Roo, maybe you should get it looked at sometime then. But do you see a doctor or a therapist?

No idea. I wouldn't bother, though, at least not on my own. It's annoying and can cause issues, but it's not usually bad enough to interfere with day-to-day function.

Roo, but if were going to live together I'm gonna be eating around you, and whistling A LOT.

Depends on how loudly and what's going on at the same time. I always have to have background noise if I eat with another person, like watching tv together or something, because I cannot hear that. Can. Not.