Hi Johnnie, how are you doing?
The sound processing disorder I experience is like a feeling of mental short-circuit/exhaustion when taking in sounds, actually words to be more precise.
Glitch is a good definition of how my brain reacts to different soundscapes.
Like if there is spoken info coming to me kind of fast it triggers the glitch and I feel my brain can’t take it and it switches off the word deciphering process so i can’t hear complete sentences, for example.
Also this glitch is triggered when my brain tries to make out what is said when there is competing background noise or when people speak at the same time or when the sound quality is not clear (over the phone or television).
As for glitches for others kinds of incoming information I definitely have that too in different kinds of everyday situations, multitasking, for example, trying to write something and talking to someone at the same time puts me in that state of over-arousal and switches on some neurological mechanism that feels like heavy mental overwhelming and dysfunction.
And all this, yes, as you asked, creates a lot of anxiety repeatedly on a daily basis.
Doctors, of course, have told me I am “stressed out”, but I can tell from the dubious way they affirm this that they really don’t believe stress is the root cause in my case, and neither do I.