Hello to all, you have no idea how happy I was to find this (or you
probably do). I've had this for as long as I can remember, isolated to
other people doing it, not myself so much. I can't watch it or hear it in
movies at all, don't like parties/drunk people, and get edgy if someone
looks pale or sometimes if they just cough hard. If my husband says he
doesn't feel well I bombard him with questions, even if he means he has a
cold. Last year was the worst - he got food poisoning, and all I could do
was sit in the other end of the house, fingers in my ears, humming and
rocking. I felt so guilty for not being able to help him or comfort him.
I'm always afraid I'm going to lose my mind. What's bad is you never
know when or where. Big crowds make me nervous because of the
possibility. I don't work, and I wonder if by the time I'm 40 or 50 or ever
if I will even be able to leave my house! I've read that exposure therapy
works, but who wants to be exposed to that?? I worry that if a stranger
does it ON me that I might attack them, and would I be legally liable?
Granted that's probably going a little far. But still I'm glad that all of you
are here.