Hearing Voices ???
Crazy or suffering from hyperacusis... ??????
With Autism....
Note that autism, schizophrenia, epilepsy, etc. have all been associated with hyperacusis and that indeed, certain drugs such as antidepressants, antipsychotics, anesthetics, or recreational drugs can all trigger hypersensitivity to sounds (http://www.audiologyonline.com/articles/arc_disp.asp?id=529&catid=6).
http://www.autismhelpforyou.com/Hearing%20Voices.htmAlso... Just in thought.......................... ((( Smiles ))))
I was reading in Dr Jastreboff's book TRT Implementing the Neurophysiological Model....
In the glossary.. Neuron... The morphological and functional unit of the nervous system. A neuron comprises a nerve cell body , short radiating process called dendrites and one long process called the axon. The axon plus it's covering or sheath in the nerve fiber. Syn: Nerve cell....
And then I read in the Glossary of his book...
Lyme Disease .. A chronic infection transmitted by the animal tick Borrelia burgdorferi, which effects the nervous system among other effects. Hyperacusis is frequently one of the symptoms. Lyme disease is treatable with large doses of antibiotics....
Also I read on page 227 .. The issue of how tinnitus- related neuronal activity is processed within the nervous system is basically still open....
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Neurons are an interesting thing.. The dendrites..
I have this newspaper articule if I can find it from months ago. I know It stashed it somewhere but it was based on research on what mercury does to the neurons in explanation in research and that word ... dendrites was in that articule..
It's just a facanating subject..
Hypercusis.. besides just being noise related can be caused or trigged by other things as well ... we allready know that....
It's just to early into research to rule everything out as a possible backdoor cause in some people....
That may effect the nervous system nerve cells in action...
And that has been shown to effect the hearing in many ways allready..
Thats why some of Marsha posts on certain subjects over the years I've read with high interest.. Inflammation.. Interesting...
I think keeping an open mind into research and future finds is how many problems are solved for many different people over time...
As there are many other pathways to hyperacusis disorder besides the norm... Research opens up doors.. No matter where it may lead...
But people dared to think....
Thats why doctors started washing their hands during invasive percedures.. Others poop pooed that kind of thinking away as bizarre but they dared to think..
Out of the box.. Out of the norm.. It saved lives...
ADHD and Hypersensitivity......
My ears are also hypersensitive and loud, or high-pitched sounds leave my ears ringing. I keep the volume on the radio and TV turned way down (which bothers everyone else in the house because they cannot hear it). If I hear an unusual sound (usually no one else hears it) I cannot focus anything else until I find the source of the sound. Once that is established I can return to what I was doing.
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As for sound, I hear things others don't. People think I am hearing things, but then eventually they hear what I hear too. (e.g. I'll hear a train coming before others will. I'll hear a cat meowing because it's trapped in a closet when no-one else will). Also, I have close to perfect pitch (in music). I play music by ear. (I've taught myself). I can hear little things in music like a 7th or a suspension. (like hearing the difference between: D, Dsus, Dsus7, D add E, etc). Maybe that's partly experience, but I think it is sound sensitivity as well.
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I always thought I was just spoiled or weird (or something). People in my family would tell me that I was exaggerating these things. (Those rolled eyeballs, as if to say "what you're telling me can't possibly be true.") It was so comforting to read that these phenomenas were indeed common with many neurological disorders. Some of these are also seen in Bipolar Disorder, Epilepsy and Autism-- especially the sound. My daughter, who is autistic, covers her ears quite often. My guess is that she is hypersensitive to sounds-- and then gets over-stimulated. One of my medications, Tegretol, can also have the side effect of causing extreme sensitivity to sound/s (AKA "Hyperacusis").
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