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When the noise goes quiet

Ten months of quiet and then a stressful autumn

Started 15 May 2026 · 9 replies · 62 hearts · read 1.1k times

AnnaAthens, GR · 15 May 2026
2 months ago

Something I have been sitting with: Ten months of quiet and then a stressful autumn Not looking for advice so much as other people's experience.

Not asking anyone to fix this. Mostly saying it out loud somewhere it will be read kindly.

I have told nobody in my life about this part of it, which after two years is starting to seem like the problem rather than a way of managing it.

Something shifted a few months ago and I have only just been able to put words to it, and the words are still not quite right.

I keep records precisely so that I do not have to estimate, and the record says ten months, which is what the title says too.

Thanks. Saying it here first has made the idea of saying it to somebody else considerably less impossible.

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BronteHaworth, UK
#1

I noticed it first in the supermarket, of all places, standing in an aisle that had always been difficult and finding it was simply an aisle.

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JonahFacilitatorCork, Ireland
#2

I want to name what it costs to meet something frightening calmly rather than rushing at it. It takes practice, this circle has it, and none of us had it at the start.

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SaoirseKilkenny, IE
#3

The quiet was the thing I was least prepared for. I had spent thirty years with a background hum and had no idea it was not how everybody's head sounded.

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CallaWellington, NZ
#4

What helped was writing down what the noise had actually been, while I could still remember it clearly. Six months later the memory of it had gone soft.

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FreyaReykjavík, IS
#5

What surprised me most was how ordinary I felt. Not better exactly. Ordinary, in a way I had assumed was simply not available to me.

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OdileMontreal, CA
#6

Mine is quieter on some days than others and correlates strongly with sleep, which took me about a year of notes to see.

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MaritGroningen, NL
#7

The thing I would say is that this is worth talking about in therapy if you have access to it. Mine opened up a great deal that I had not connected to it.

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JonahFacilitatorCork, Ireland
#8

Noticing that the thread has stayed with feeling rather than sliding into logistics, which is right for this circle and takes discipline.

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OsgarKillarney, IE
#9

The relief was enormous and the adjustment was real, and I think people talk about the first and not the second.

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