BEING IN A ROOM WITH OTHER PEOPLE

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Does anyone else have a hard time with this. It has gotten worse for me lately but then again so has my stress. I pretty much want to be alone 24/7 and it causes me huge amounts of stress even if one person passes through the room for a moment. I know this seems like an extreme reaction but it's so bad I have to plug my ears and curl up under a blanket and block everything out. I start freaking out when I am in a room...say, the kitchen....and more than one person enters and the place becomes busy. I wont enter a room in the house until it is completely empty. I feel horrible being that it is my own family but it's like I just want to dig a hole in hide in it because any kind of contact with another person causes me intense stress and anxiety and I rather just be alone.

I'm the same way. I don't even go to family Christmas parties any more because there are just too many people there and I can't handle being in a crowded house.

Yep to both previous posts.

My family includes several loud talkers. They are apparently, socially, deaf and show a need to enjoy their conversations at a level 11. Fair enough for them, but I can't tolerate it. I end up leaving the room, the house, the neighborhood or, if trapped, clench my teeth and bear it out. I have two or three cracked teeth from this bad habit. I get very terse when someone enters my home. I have a mental schedule of things I want and need to do every day, and resent the interruptions. I like to stay on schedule.

There are also a lot of kids in my family, so that's another reason I stay away. Nothing against children, mind you--it's just that I can't deal with all of the running and screaming and all of that.