Being 'over-sensitive'

[Munchroom]

Do any of you find that since having depression you are more sensitive to the actions of others??

I have never liked the noise of others eating - my dad is the same with people crunching so I've never thought it was too odd.... but recently, I just cannot bear it. If I hear someone eating or crunching, I have to move.... We do tend to eat on the sofa in the lounge - when its just me and Chris, he knows and we sit at opposite end of the sofa with the tv on   But if theres more people I have to sit on the other sofa because I'd be too close to someone thats eating. Crisps and nuts are a nightmare - even when I have a packet of crisps I tend to think twice about eating them as I know they will make that crunch noise....

Is this weird?  

[Zaf]

I find a lot of noises more irritating, I cant say crunching is one of them but chrisp packets rustling are definitely ultra annoying

[smirfy21]

This is something that has really become a problem for me. I cannot be around people eating like pigs it just drives me insane I hate the crunching and sound of people eating without closing theire mouthes it just makes my skin crawl.
other things I tend to be over sensitive about are the sound of people arguing, talking loudly at each other (even though they are sat right next to each other or are in the same room), drunk people, loud music and large groups of people having a million different conversations.

I dont know if this is particuarly normal and yes people in my family think its strange but to be honest I am not harming anyone so i'm not to worried about what other people think.

smirfy

[seamie]

i hate eating in public fullstop,but like smirfy i,m oversensetive about drunk people and loud music and large groups of people

[Munchroom]

Thanks lovelies.... it would appear I'm not the only one!

I know what you mean about large groups of people.... I get so anxious and just want to run away and curl up somewhere quiet... 

[seamie]

i went to the supermarket tonight and for some reason the noise seemed deafening, it was like every body was manically shouting at one another and i could feel myself retreating further into myself.


i would like to apologize for all my posts and feeble replies. its down to a lack of education, i dont possess the words to express  myself properly, and i get oversensitive about not being educated. sorry

[Zaf]

Hey seamie your replies arent feeble, dont put yourself down, this damned illness makes us over sensitive about what we think are our weaknesses. 

Did you know some really clever people are actually dyslexic and were thought to be 'slow' at school? Everyone has something they're good at, being able to write well isnt that important in life, very often people that struggle with writing are brilliant at other things, even they dont realse it.

[Munchroom]

Seamie, your replies have never seemed feeble to me, please dont worry  :)

I love writing and reading (I read literally, anything) but I definitely have more of a creative mind - science, numbers... anything like that, I suck! I'm not really 'allowed' to deal with our finances/insurances and so on, because I just end up getting confused and frustrated.....

Like Zaf has said, you may have talents that you don't realise  :) and writing isn't everything! (It is if you want to be an author...  , but other than that  ) Besides, other people on the forums don't know how long it takes others to write  replies, or how many times they have typed and erased it all to make it sound half decent!  xx

[cornish]

i agree with munch

different people have different abilities, my writing is terrible and i mean one of my friends from a while ago had a 4 year old daughter and her writing was better. my literature skills are terrible, i actually spend hours sometimes re writing some of my posts and i would say about 50% just get deleted.  but when it comes to electrics i was at the top of my class at college, i even managed to get the highest mark ever on one exam and i was hung over and drinking sambuca and orzo mixed with lilt during the exam.   yes i was a bit of an alcoholic for a while but i beat that demon a long time ago


im deffinitly oversensitive, the smallest thing can scare the crap out of me

[account deleted]

I am definitely too sensitive.
I find myself constantly over-analysing things people say or do, or don't do.
They didn't return my call / text / e-mail? What does that mean? They don't like me.. or worse they REALLY don't like me.
Of course I KNOW that 'probably' isn't the case, but I still feel that way.
I find my self trying to do too much for people, to try to stay on their good side. But then I get hurt when I'm taken advantage of or dismissed all together... definitely too sensitive!

I often feel like running away but that doesn't help in the long run.

[Munchroom]

That all sounds so familiar! Especially the doing too much for other people - not for any paticular reason, most of the time I find I'm not too worried about being on people's good side! But I figure if you can do something to make someones life easier, or cheer them up - then why not do it? And in my mind, if I have thought of something and I don't do it, then I get such awful guilt, when chances are, they wouldn't expect me to do it anyway, or I am being 'too nice'. I think sometimes I have crossed that line where it is a good and positive thing into being a self-detrimental thing where I end up being the one exhausted or the one that ends up getting hurt when I put my trust and efforts into the wrong people....

[Depina]

I know what you mean I have struggled SO much. I know I am over sensitive and seem to feel things more strongly than other people, and I dwell on things, think about myself too much too! I annoy myself with this, I would love for things to just go over my head and not worry about them. Also - noise, my husband doesn't understand when I ask him to turn things down, I am trying to be sensitive to his needs but would really like him to just turn the thing OFF!! Too much noise does my head in !! D XX

[Depina]

munchroom - sounds great your enthusiam for reading and writing, all good to take your mind off things. I know what you mean about finance. I can not do anything like that, my husband 'sort of' does bits but we are in a mess,he really just keeps the wolf from the door. Stresses me that I don't know how long this can go on, we have never been secure as he was self employed and didn't earn enough, and I worked part time. he got out business loans, bank loans out, we will never repay them. Better stop going on now. D XX

[Zaf]

I am definitely too sensitive.
I find myself constantly over-analysing things people say or do, or don't do.
They didn't return my call / text / e-mail? What does that mean? They don't like me.. or worse they REALLY don't like me.
Of course I KNOW that 'probably' isn't the case, but I still feel that way.
I find my self trying to do too much for people, to try to stay on their good side. But then I get hurt when I'm taken advantage of or dismissed all together... definitely too sensitive!

I could have written that guitar man, its exactly how I feel and what I do

[Munchroom]

I'm not too sure my OH will agree about the reading bit when he discovers I've bought 7 books this week.... 

I used to write all the time, I have so many manuscripts of novels and short stories that I'm really going to have to work up to editing them and actually doing something with them... but all of this just knocked me back massivley, so I'm reading a lot. Like you say, it's good to take your mind off of things and use it as a sort of escape, I'm also hoping that by reading, the writing will come back  :) I did write a children's story a few weeks ago which, everytime I speak to my mum she ask's if I've sent it to anyone yet!