New Noisy Cint Neighbours From Hell

PasturesNew

Zelie wrote: »

give them a few days of hearing everyone else and they'll work it out.

Everybody else is pretty much silent. Just the entrance door's allowed to bang by a couple of them.

They've had more visitors today than the entire block has had in the last 18 months. And that's not exagerrating.

Uh-ho shouting!!
They hadn't all gone out obviously.

Update: ah, that's 2 more gone ... no idea if that's the lot, or what.

m_13

PasturesNew wrote: »

Is that what it is? A panic attack? Oh, I just thought it was chest pains ... I might die in 10 minutes, always a worry!



I don't like to bother NHS Direct, it'll pass. It's gone quiet now, so I can relax for a bit until they trundle back in.

NHS Direct aren't always the best for anxiety. As soon as they determine you're not about to die on them they have to move onto another call as they get so many!

Where I live there is a 24 hour support line for those with depression and anxiety that you can ring for a chat and some assurance. I think that's fantastic resource as sometimes it just helps to talk to somebody.

I have Tietze Syndrome and get a crushing pain in my chest that travels down my arms. I've been to casualty once thinking I was having a heart attack but now I know what it is, I recognise that being stressed isn't going to help and I try to calm down. Not always easy though ....

loveandlight

We always take our shoes off when we come in as we know if we can hear everything from downstairs we try to ensure they can't hear us. My neighbour has also started having her friends round every day whenever its half term and they have kids as well who also go beserk for hours on end as soon as they are in the flat so I always feel like we are living above a zoo. The noise is horrendous and even people I talk to on the phone can hear the noise from downstairs.

The sad thing is we started off being friendly with them in the beginning in the hope the situation wouldn't be as bad as the previous neighbours but all it did was encourage them to make even more noise as they thought we were too nice and therefore weak.

I think it's a great idea that you are making a note of all the things you can do as that will make you feel empowered and doing something and I think printing off the noise nuisance and leaving it so they can find it is a good idea as well.

PasturesNew

m_13 wrote: »

I have Tietze Syndrome

I have Aspergers, which comes with a variety of behaviours and traits. For years people would ask me if I was OK as I go a funny colour and my hands shake, just doing normal stuff like paying for groceries my hands would sometimes shake so much the cashier would ask if I was OK.... it's just one of the things I've lived with until I found out why.

The trouble with any syndrome is: nobody can see it. It's not like you've got a leg lopped off and people can see that and accommodate your extra needs, you just come over as a loony.

m_13

I'm very lucky. I work from home most of the time and when the pain is chronic for weeks on end and I struggle to get dressed I can slob around the flat so long as nobody expects me to use a webcam in a meeting! When the pain is really bad I'm so intolerant it's unbelievable and that's mainly when my neighbours TV drives me mad particularly as she's on terrestial and we're on freeview or Sky and so the sound is slightly ahead of ours

It's sometimes not easy though when I have to lug stuff around for work and simply can't pick things up.

Since I got my Wii Fit and pushed myself to exercise in the mornings I have found things have improved as I'm generally calmer and more able to deal with the pain. I've been cheating lately but have been promised a new Pink album when I get to seven days in a row of 30 minutes or more. Today was day two and I managed it even though I had to work in the office and do prep for RND09 (we're running a call centre).

I don't know much about Aspergers but I know that learning more about Tietze's has helped me recognise what is normal (mainly pain!) and what is not so I can be more informed. It also enabled me to read posts from other people with the same thing and find out what works for them.

PasturesNew

m_13 wrote: »

I'm very lucky. I work from home most of the time .

I sort of do. I am at home every day, all day, every day. I don't go out unless there's a very very very good reason why I really can't avoid it.



I'm a hermit. I plan to stop doing that, but I need a very very good reason to.

Zelie

There was some country pile advertising for a hermit a few years back. You should see if the job centre has any ads for that - you'd rock at it (though I think they might insist on no internet but you could sneak that in once they'd given you the keys.

poppysarah

Manchester Uni wanted a hermit for their tower - think they found one.

PasturesNew

I saw once that there was some French experiment. You had to be put into a small room, in isolation for just 3 months. They would watch you, see in what ways you went mad. It was some study about isolation/madness.

They were paying about £27k.... GIVE ME THAT GIG!!

3 months? Puffs.... I'd just sit and think for 3 months, it's not a problem at all. I'd come out as sane as the day I went in.

Zelie

PasturesNew wrote: »

I saw once that there was some French experiment. You had to be put into a small room, in isolation for just 3 months. They would watch you, see in what ways you went mad. It was some study about isolation/madness.

They were paying about £27k.... GIVE ME THAT GIG!!

3 months? Puffs.... I'd just sit and think for 3 months, it's not a problem at all. I'd come out as sane as the day I went in.

!!!!!!??? How can a person go mad in just three months. I'll be sitting happily in the cell next door.

Actually, did you get to have stuff or was it just an empty room? If there wasn't anything to do your ways of keeping yourself amused could probably look a bit mad to an observer. But if there were books n stuff it would be fine. And was there a window so you could watch the sky? I'm not going if there's no sky.