The only noises that really get to me are

1. The young mother in downstairs flat when she goes into one of her mentally unhinged shrieking sessions at her partenr or baby girl. This happens almost every day (at any time of night) and at least once one the weekend. This has been going on for 3 years. I have called police. They visit. They leave. She resumes. Baby has now taken to shrieking in the same way.

2. The low air conditioning hum I have heard/felt in some large warehouse stores like B&Q. It really unsettles me and makes me feel quite ill.

3. Sound effects in cartoons and canned laughter in television comedies. Easy enough to turn off if it my TV, but if I am somewhere this stuff is going on, it sets my teeth on edge.

4. My ex-husband's voice when he was incessantly picking at me about some thing or another. Literally hours of following me around as i did house work and yammering until he would wear me down to get an agreement on something I really did not want to do.

5. Last and probably the most important. The sound of someone crying. I cannot let them cry alone and when I start it is very difficult for me to stop.