It Strips You Of Everything / Right & Wrong Approaches To Help Treat Pain Hyperacusis First off, I am not a doctor, and I am not giving medical advice. I am speaking through my own personal experience, and other patients' experiences as well, that I know. It strips you of everything you once had. Freedom, physically connecting with others, ability to take care of yourself - Cooking, cleaning, and sometimes not even being able to bathe because the sounds of running water are too hard to handle. When at a severe level, you cannot live alone, you need compassionate supportive help to do these everyday things, either in your home, or supports close to you for survival. If not, people may fail and get worse, there is no turning back, when at such severe levels with these auditory conditions, there are no limits, absolutely none, and this is what people do not understand who do not have these conditions, they destroy people's lives, and take everything away. In my five years of...