Would you ever suicide due to noise?

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I once had a breakdown after living for years on a really busy street, and after years of practically no vehicular activity I've been forced back to not quite as noisy as as years ago, but not as quiet (except for human-specific noises) as recent years, and I'm so tired of this... it's like I can't get away from banged doors (although less now) or raving lunatics whose vehicular noise serves as a substitute for some mythical hormonal organ... because that is what this nonsense is all about, I had a breakdown because some think their penis isn't big enough... wtf.

I'm in the same situation you're in, I will admit I did think about it once but I didn't go through with it. I know it's tough and I feel your pain but, suicide would not be the answer.

Taking some medicine has helped also I have ear buds that go deep in my ear with a white noise app(a fan many are free) that helps with it. A therapist can help give you some options with how to help and cope with traffic noise as well. I go back and forth with tolerating it but I guess I can't expect for it to go away right away so I'm working through it. There is help so please try researching and getting the help you need.

Once noise was a near last straw: I had a big event the next day and had nicely asked the neighbors to turn down the music, which they kindly did, but it was still too loud; I checked myself into an urgent care to get through the night (quietly and alive). Now I have ear plugs, but I prefer not to use them. I have no idea how my BFF lives in the city. I get nervous just visiting.

White noise or a loud fan or a rocket launcher - ah, wait, did I say 'rocket launcher' out loud?

Noise-cancelling headphones might also be useful.

I once lived in an apartment, where next door, this woman would play the same song on repeat until about 4am ... so loud! I love music but THAT was hell(The song is forever etched in my memory ... Malena on the Wall by Suzanne Vega. Now, I’m living a dream life, in a quiet village in England ... how did this happen ?! If I were you, I’d definitely use earbuds or headphones, whatever works, anything to give you the peace you need.

I think it would be time to consider a move to the country. I personally do not have very good opinions of suicide, having been suicidal in the past and currently very relieved I never took it seriously.

You need to get out of there, or find some coping mechanisms. Aspie engineering might involve soundproofing your apartment with styrofoam bowls filled with packing peanuts then covered in drywall (and cute wallpaper.)

Or it might just involve cranking up your car and getting away.

Right now I am living on the second floor of an antiquated brick house with wood-frame walls on a busy street in Nashville, Tennessee. "Mufflers with cars attached" is the only way I could describe some of the machines that go zooming up and down the turnpike every day. Sometimes they race them at night--I heard a new-model Mustang modded to sound exactly like a weed trimmer--and then the constant backfiring from the boy-racer engineering gets ridiculous. Ordinarily it is just "vrrrrrrrm, err-errrrrrrom" but these ones they have made hot rods out of sound more like "meeerrrrrrr-bang, bang, Bang, BANG! sput-put-put-BANG!" and how they keep mufflers on them is beyond me.

We also have a fire station as one of our near neighbors, and we are in earshot of a railroad shunting yard.

You might want to fix your situation before it hurts you. We're all rooting for you in Aspie-land.

At the very least sirens aren't audible from here, although they were years ago, and also were near college which is why I so very nearly quit so many times (what's the point of trying to teach when noise is regularly intruding?)

I often wonder being born before the invention of the infernal engine would have been better.

After a really dark month or so I had a while back, I've decided I could likely avoid killing myself under anything. Though, bad meltdowns can happen in life and I can end up badly hurt in them. I could see myself dying in meltdown under the wrong circumstances, but not in suicide.

Don't die, it's against the rules.

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