Annoying Sound = Violently Sick

[Scanning]

Would like to know if anyone has experienced this before: I work in a large area of people in an open plan office. We recently had a spate of decorations put up around the office, while some balloons were being put up, the sound of squeeking ballons being handled made a member of staff extremely irrate. He mentioned that the sound makes him extremely nauseous and had been violently sick in the past by this sound. He even threatened to go home if the sound continued. Is this normal???... a rare medical condition or a mental one?. Does anyone else know of these types of symptoms relating to certain noises?.. I'm baffled by it..

[woofgang]

no, noise does affect some people really badly, like the nails on a blackboard thing. I cannot tolerate low bass noise, it actually hurts me.

[The German]

I hate the sound of Mice

[butterfly76]

I have got a friend who gets well pi**ed if you put buttons near her, especially the ones on duffel coats, its a type of phobia. She got sick once when someone at school rubbed the button of there duffel coat on her hand. She can't wear anything with buttons except metal ones like on jeans. I know its not the same as the noise issue but it shows that if you have a phobia of something whatever it may be it can make you sick. Cotton wool being rubbed together that makes me want to run a mile that squeaky sound ahhhhhh, the same with the noise of cutlery banging together!

[juliely]

I cannot bear to see elastic bands being stretched and the sound of ice on the inside of a freezer being scraped. Both of these makes me feel really nauseous.

[Kay]

It called "Globophobia" Scanning. The sound of balloons squeaking IS really enough to make a sufferer feel sick and panicky. My friend has this phobia brachiopod and she is certainly no "Killjoy" so spare a thought for those with phobia's.

[Hermia]

I have to leave the room if anyone is unpacking anything involving polystyrene. I can't cope with the sound of two pieces of polystyrene rubbing together. URG!

[Woodsz]

I live close to the A/M180 and the road is so nosey that it makes some people very tired and some have been driving dangerously so much so that they have had to put laybys every few miles along the A180

[undercovers]

rubbing of hands on concrete or rough brick work, makes me feel grim thinking about it the sound make me shiver and i feel ill - horrible