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I find sounds often physically painful. I was just resting with my eyes shut after eating lunch and I got a text message, the sound of it shocked me and basically hurt. This morning I woke with a start thinking someone was walking into my bedroom (no one was) and the feeling was like being electrocuted.

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Jan (DL1JPH)
My ring tone and notification sound are permanently set to silent, the most important notifications get passed on to my watch, which just vibrates. Any sudden noise will have me jump to the ceiling. It doesn't have to be loud, though that makes it much worse - that feels like getting hit in the face.

I spend most of my day with very strong ANC headphones on, as even the fan noise of my computer drives me crazy otherwise.
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Jan (DL1JPH)
Weirdly, before I understood what was going on, one of my coping strategies used to be listening to music with the volume turned up way too high - basically, drowning out all the other noise with something more predictable.
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