How Have You Dealt With Sensitivity, Perseverant Thoughts?

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This question is for AS and others who have recognized similar patterns in themselves and have taken successful measures to alleviate them.

For me, perseverant thoughts are the source of many of my problems, because they typically lead to maladaptive behavior. These thoughts usually stem from sensitivity, either sensory or emotional. For instance, I am very sensitive to noise, and the slightest change in audio (e.g. TV from another room, hum of a fan elsewhere in the house, slamming door) upsets me and puts me into a perseverant thought cycle, which usually results in me confronting the source and eliminating it, when possible. I can't say that this particular behavior is maladaptive, but when the matter is emotional rather than sensory, the source is a human being, and that complicates matters. I have a habit of confronting and eliminating offensive stimuli directly, and it is very psychologically painful if I do not indulge this habit.

What practices have you employed to deal with similar issues in your own life, and what has been the extent of their success?

Do you attempt to manage your thoughts, your sensitivities, or both?

I'm sensitive to noises too, and I survive by wearing earplugs 24/7, and keeping my bedroom door shut if my family is being noisy.

As for emotional sensitivity - I get my feelings hurt very easily too, and what works for me is to let people know, and try to work through the issue. People who care will try to work with me to find a solution to the problem. People who don't care are ones that I protect myself from in the future, by avoiding contact with them as much as possible.

I got rid most of my sensory issues by getting rid of the constant state of anxiety first. Then end up mastering tolerance without 'breaking' myself into meltdown or in a perseverant state.
As long as my mind is clear enough, I wont get overwhelmed or easily surprised by sudden senses. One mustn't mistook it as 'ignoring'.

However, there are still some few things persists in my case: Picky eating, vulnerability against cold temperatures, and lack of sensory filters.
Perhaps in my case, both 1st and 2nd can be practiced but not as easily as since it's easily avoidable.
3rd cannot be resolved as far as I know. I have no way of knowing how to control filters.
It's either all (e.g. Hearing: too many voices and background noise) or nothing (Completely blocking out hearing via isolation or direct solution of headphones/earplugs). I can deal with the former without even trying.

I do have enough tolerance not to get overwhelmed. But I still don't have filters to feel what I'm *only* supposed to feel.

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