Extreme noise sensitivity anxiety

Advice Needed

For the past two years or so I started getting just started easily by hearing or seeing something that I didn’t expect. It was something I could brush off easily at the time. For the last few months it’s been gradually getting worse. The past week or two every little sound my family makes scares the crap out of me. I legit jump and scream. It’s a lot less bad when I leave the house. I notice my biggest triggers are my family talking or someone calling my name from the other room. When they do call my name I almost always immediately think I did something wrong or someone’s hurt or something bad happened. I get that a lot with sudden louse noise like something getting dropped. Certain tones or being “nagged” are worse because it’s like the jump scare doesn’t stop till they finish talking. Even then it takes me awhile to calm down and become even more sensitive to noises. I’ll admit I didn’t have the best childhood but my family is way more stable and I have good relationships with them. My household unstable as a kid it was like almost my whole childhood we were all living through low grade trauma we were so dysfunctional. I heard these some ear plugs that you can still hear through but alter the sound. Please let me know what works well if you tried them. Any other suggestions that I can bring up to my Dr would be helpful.

Posted Jun 25, 2026, 7:00 AM UTC

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