{"id":58,"date":"2007-01-10T09:14:06","date_gmt":"2007-01-10T14:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jennsjournal.com\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/01\/10\/noise\/"},"modified":"2007-03-22T21:56:21","modified_gmt":"2007-03-23T02:56:21","slug":"noise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jennsjournal.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/10\/noise\/","title":{"rendered":"noise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>the older i get, the more sensitive to noise i am. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>i&#8217;ve always hated the sound of fingernails on chalkboards, smacking food, and popping gum. but as each year passes, i add more and more sounds to my roster of &#8220;i can&#8217;t take this&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>typing<\/li>\n<li>chewing<\/li>\n<li>clearing throats<\/li>\n<li>utensils scraping on plates<\/li>\n<li>thumping bass<\/li>\n<li>etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>you get the point.<\/p>\n<p>what is wrong with me? i used to think, &#8220;oh well, just a little neurotic quirk, no biggie.&#8221; but now, i&#8217;m alarmed that ordinary, everyday noises really and truly bother me. i live with headphones stuck in my ears when i&#8217;m at work. i can&#8217;t go to the movies, because instead of hearing the movie, all i hear are people around me crunching on popcorn or chewing licorice. going out to eat is another adventure if i know that the restaurant will be quiet enough to hear other people.<\/p>\n<p>obviously this is bigger than a minor neurotic quirk. it affects my ability to work, to go out, to enjoy life. i wonder if this is a manifestation of the mild form of OCD that i have? if so, i wonder if there&#8217;s some sort of behavioral modification that would help? i don&#8217;t want to take the time to go to a therapist only to have medication thrown at the problem.<\/p>\n<p><em>currently listening to: <strong>twilight<\/strong> from the album &#8220;from a basement on the hill&#8221; by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=%22Elliott Smith%22\" target=\"_blank\">elliott smith<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>the older i get, the more sensitive to noise i am.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s6vTaU-noise","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennsjournal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennsjournal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennsjournal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennsjournal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennsjournal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennsjournal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennsjournal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennsjournal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennsjournal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}