So I called my mom because I have a cold and am trying to figure out how to treat it since what I have been doing didn’t seem to help, and she told me that my sister has the same cold. For whatever reason I hate sharing things with my family / being sick at the same time, so I was already upset.

I was trying to stay calm, but then my mom told me that my sister is really sick and has been out of school for three days coughing with a really bad cold. I’m so scared. Luckily for me I’m away at college and can’t hear any of it, but I can only imagine how awful it sounds (coughing is my biggest Misophonia trigger). On top of it there is a girl in my class who is extremely loud and has a tendency to cough and sneeze constantly. Like me, she has Autism, but also has a tendency to think out loud. Because of her constant noises, I’m set off a lot. I don’t tell her how I’m feeling because I know she can’t help it but it is so frustrating sometimes.

I’m so angry, I’m crying writing this because I can hear my sister’s coughs even though she’s not here, I can imagine them. Luckily I calmed down after about ten minutes of wearing earplugs. It would’ve been so much easier if my mom just didn’t tell me how bad her cold was, because now I’m all worried about getting sicker and melting down. I’ve tried to tell her not to tell me this stuff but she has ADD and has a tendency to forget. Does anyone else have a similar experience?

  • ComfortableRaspberry@feddit.org
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    6 days ago

    So your constellation is very unique but I can slightly relate because not being able to let go of a specific thought it’s something very common in C-PTSD. To work on this, my therapist taught me the “vault exercise” in short it’s about visualizing how you lock specific things away in a mental vault, so you can stop thinking about them for a while.

    It helped me a lot! Maybe you can give it a try. Here are some further instructions.