Can't stand fighting!

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I am always very unsettled and disturbed when I hear people yell at each other. Growing up and living with my sister who is Bi-Polar was difficult because she would yell at my mother a lot. I would hide under my blankets in my room a lot, even if it was 90 degrees outside. During middle and high school all of the kids would gather to watch fights after school. I could never bring myself to watch them, I hate to see people get hurt. I tend to "shut down" if i'm caught in the middle of an argument, although I have tried to mediate a few arguments, to no effect. I seem to further enrage people when I try to be the voice of reason.

i further enrage people to when i speak, im supposively always wrong an no one understands me, i always shut down something little happens thats bad or sad an ill imeddiately just lose my speaking and zone outbut feel really depressed and wanna cry, ive been through alot for someone young i think it all depends on your factors if you shutdown,how much you shutdown,when you shutown, etc..but if i were u if this happens go escape from people an just sit in the bathroom read listen to music write anything just time alone it will really help

I identify with that so much! I HATE people yelling, fighting, discussing.
when that happens in my house I get disturbed and may cry, hide myself, lock myself in the bathroom, or shutdown. My mother said last time: "stop acting like that! You are not a child anymore. People discuss!" but I just can't see it like that.
maybe off topic but I am also afraid of people that speak loud, fighting or not,

I can argue (make arguments) but I can't "argue" (yell at people).

I can't reason with people because they get aggressive; they speak too much and too loud.

me too. it overloads me.

I have developed a deep dislike for fighting/arguments, because I was almost constantly exposed to my mother and father fighting when I was a child. On-and-off, this would go on from about my 7th year all the way down to my 16th and even beyond I've witnessed some nasty fights between them. Frequently. Sometimes, not a day would go by in which they weren't at each other's throats.

So yeah, that imprinted on me a thorough dislike of verbal conflict (and I can't say I'm a fan of physical conflict either). I tend to avoid any kind of conflict as a result, even minor squibbles. That's how sick the experience with my parents has made me toward fighting.

I can't stand fights either.

I feel the same way.

The reason is sensory overload.

The only way to try to get around it is to get better at viewing the big picture, thus temporarily becoming less sensitive.

That is done by thinking "in people": viewing all people as one big united group, instead of tons of individuals as we usually do.

violence sucks. not just physical but mental/psychological as well.

Everything I say is rehearsed to some extent, and when I get off the rehearsed conversations, my mind starts to shut down. Arguments are the worse case example for me as most of it gets off of my rehearsed material, and I shut down completely. Everything the other person is saying sounds so true, and suddenly everything I had rehearsed sounds so false. I can't come up with any defenses for my side of the argument, and end up losing the argument. I have a strong tendency to turn my back and walk away from arguments. This always angers the other person, but it gives me room to clear my mind and ponder over what the other person said to me. Of course, when I return they want to resume the argument and have a dozen replies to each new defense I came up with.

Simply put, I hate arguments. I never win any of them and always come out feeling like an idiot and a looser.

there's no arguing with people under the horatio alger meme delusion, as their entire self-image is all wrapped around "get rich or die trying."

I HATE drama in any form. I avoid fights at all costs as I refuse to participate.

People yelling at each other is number three on my list of annoying sounds, right behind fire alarms and popping balloons. The loudness vibrates into my ears just enough to give me a killer headache. If it lasts long enough, I start to shut down from sensory overload. Oh, and I get to hear someone's feelings get hurt.

I don't like fights either, not even minor disagreements or brief arguments that just blow over after a few minutes. It might have something to do with my parents divorcing when I was about 5 and a half...I must have concluded, "Fighting means people don't like/love each other anymore."

I hate fighting too. The times that me and my sister fought, it didn't matter who "won" the fight it just mattered that my sister soon learned to not dare approach me after it was over. I'd get so angry and worked up that I'd have to go in a quiet room alone to try and calm myself down. I hate it more that in schools and in my neighborhood that fighting is praised and it shows how "tough" you are.

I hate fighting too. The times that me and my sister fought, it didn't matter who "won" the fight it just mattered that my sister soon learned to not dare approach me after it was over. I'd get so angry and worked up that I'd have to go in a quiet room alone to try and calm myself down. I hate it more that in schools and in my neighborhood that fighting is praised and it shows how "tough" you are.