Hey Meg,

THANK you for not deleting this topic.

I was wondering… first, how you´re doing on this subject now, and second, if you could maybe tell me where to find that forum you were talking about?

Reading your posts I thought I was reading my own story. I actually live in a very quiet place now, but I´ve had those anxiety problems with all kinds of neighbors and outside noises for YEARS before that, they´ve gotten better and worse and better again, and I sort of brought them with me. As I said, we live in a pretty quiet appartment now, we don´t even have downstairs neighbors here (they are almost never home), but even the slightest sound of a door slamming or footsteps makes me jump sometimes. When there´s unusual disturbances, like people using a hammer and stuff like that, I can slide right into a full on panic attac. I LOVE this appartment, I live with my boyfriend now, it´s actually like a lot of my dreams come true, but in times like these I am in constant panic, I don´t know where to go and what to do and keep telling him that I think we will have to move out. Which I don´t want at all.

Apparently the neighbors next to us moved out and somebody new moved in. That triggered my anxiety again, which was almost gone the weeks before. I was used to our “old” neighbors, now there´s new sounds, moving sounds, a child that likes running around…

Anyway… I´m looking for every possible way out of this. Right now I´m mostly avoiding, I listen to background music all the time, wear earplugs etc. But I´d love to just be able to do something in the living room WITHOUT music, without worrying, sometimes there´s an entire day where you hear almost nothing, but I wouldn´t even notice cause I´m anticipating…

So IDK, if you found some answers… I´d be happy if you want to share them… I´m new here so I don´t know about the possibility of private messages if you don´t want to share in this thread anymore.

Thank you, hope you´re doing good,

Patrick