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ACNH-2001
over 3 years ago

I do get to go home one 3/4 december but I am struggling so much with university, in particularly the people I am living with! No matter how many times I ask them to keep it down in the evening, they don’t - I am literally on the opposite side of the the kitchen wall! They even know I am going through the process to get an official diagnosis for autism and yet they still push things that cause sensory overload/meltdowns.

There’s been so many nights where I’ve been rocking on my bed and pulling my hair and hitting my head on the wall because it feels so unbearable when they’re noisy and it overloads my head.

I am also struggling with time management. I find it so easy to get distracted doing my pre-recorded lecture videos and find myself getting fidgety after sitting there for a long period of time. All I ever seem to be doing is uni work recently and I feel like it’s going to get to a burnout stage again like 2 weeks ago (it became so overwhelming for me that after my boyfriend left my room (don’t worry we are the same household!) I just burst into tears and was rocking for a solid 5-10 minutes because I just needed to be myself and let everything out - it felt good but I felt so drained from the day I had). 

  1. Does anyone have any advice on how to deal with emotions/meltdowns when they occur?
  2. How to stop my flatmates from being arseholes? (I have a pair of earplugs but I hate wearing them as I can feel them expanding in my ears throughout the night and I can also hear my heartbeat every now and then)
  3. How to many time better? (I have a timetable and a structure daily planner app)

Sorry if there’s any spelling mistakes etc as I am half asleep and sometimes mistype - gonna try get some rest :))

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  • over 3 years ago

    I understand your frustration, but unfortunately cannot help.  

    I have similar problems sleeping at night, with noisy neighbours.  I live in a block of flats and one of my neighbours has some kind of electrical or mechanical device which makes a buzzing sound from around 7pm to 7am.  Sometimes it's very regular.  Like tonight, it's 1am and I cannot sleep.  I am timing the buzzing.  Every 3.5 minutes there is a ten second buzz.  I have no idea what's causing it. It's not outside because I cannot hear it from an open window.  It's either opposite my flat or below it.

    I don't even know my neighbours because the flat opposite has a different communal entrance.

    I just cannot sleep.

  • over 3 years ago in reply to Robert124

    I feel your pain so much. I have to tournament my bathroom fan and mini fridge off other wise it keeps me up even more than the people do. I hope you’re able to find a way to somehow reduce the noise and get better rest. It’s so unfortunate that people are so inconsiderate!

  • over 3 years ago in reply to ACNH-2001

    Now it's 1pm and I am lying in bed reading a book.  The place is in perfect silence.  But during the night the flat adjacent to my bedroom has these buzzing sounds why????

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