Ever suspect that the annoying din of everyday life may be causing you to be more than merely annoyed? Increasing evidence, outlined in this article in yesterday’s Washington Post, suggests that noise may be activating the natural stress response in humans:
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It’s certainly a very big stress issue for me. It greatly affects my quality of life. Sound is a great pleasure to me, but I also have to listen to it to do my work, which I do from home. I have no head room, no air space, no peace, no escape. I keep moving, the noise keeps increasing.
Many noisy devices such as airplanes could be muffled. However, I think the biggest source of noise today is recreational noise made for the fun of it: modified mufflers and boom audio. These are broadcast a great distance day and night and affect many people. I moved to a small town for quiet but it has been unregulated hell and I am working hard to get back to civilization. There is no “away.”
The only escape is to live in a rural area…far away from anything…surrounded by stuff that muffles sound.
That..
or…
Figure out some technology, that will insulate you from any noise… any EMF or frequency.
Then, find some way to spend most of your time within that environment. like computer work or what have you.
I can tell you living in a rural area does wonders for your stress level. Because its not just the absence of engine noises…. its the fact that the sound of nature actually is stress-RELIEVING.
We are coming into some interesting times now. Techology is almost the next evolution. Just like we are killing the apes..now technology is killing us.
You need to be above all this…and understand it all… only then can we think of ways to seperate ourselves from the madness.
I work in loud factory and the stress and noise has led to depression and loss of qualty of life with myself and fellow employee’s. Our nurse was retired for speaking up on this issue. oh this is a major soda company
My neighbor uses his chainsaw so much, and it just adds to my stress making it seem almost impossible to deal with
I live next door to a very loud, barking dog that has a high pitched, shrill bark. He is allowed to bark at frequent intervals throughout the day and night, or sometimes he’s allowed to just go on for several hours at a time, and I can hear it in every room of my house. I’ve lived in some noisy places, but this is by far the worst noise I’ve ever had to endure anyplace I’ve ever lived, worked or visited.
And what makes it even worse is that it is so unnecessary and could be stopped by the dog’s owners but they just let him go on and on, and become hostile if you ask them to quiet the dog.
I have searched the web for some advice on how to deal with stress caused by noise, and all I can find is block the noise or run to the forrest, damn the noise here in the office is killing me and there is no way I can block the loud typers’ noise.
Seems the dog is suffering from a separation anxiety and maybe, a fear psychosis. Maybe its owner doesn’t give it the required attention. See if that calms him down.