Drowning with Music

When I’m sitting at the computer, I like to blast loud music in my ears with my headphones. I know it’s bad for my hearing, but I need it to drown out all the commotion caused by everyone else in the house. Everyone in the house makes noise; I need silence or sounds that are pleasant to me in order to feel calm, whether what I’m doing is schoolwork or just surfing the net. Of course, the reason why the noise they make is unpleasant to me is because everyone talks or yells, and I’m very sensitive to hearing people speaking around me at any volume above low. Ironically, whispering bothers me almost as much as yelling. If they were stomping around, throwing things or knocking over furniture, it wouldn’t really bother me. If I didn’t have my headphones to block everyone out, I would most likely go nuts.