My therapist, whom I have only seen about 4-5 times, believes my DBT stems from a childhood that was mostly emotionally abusive, but did include “mild” physical child/adolescent abuse as well. I mentioned in passing to her once that I had a lot of odd fears— toasters, balloons, microwave doors shutting/opening, fireworks, popcorn cooking... the noise scares me, but not in a cute “oh that surprised me!” way. I freeze and loose the feeling in my body and panic for several minutes, once in a while I hyperventilate. 

I’d thought it was just me being weird, but she thinks that I associate these loud noises with the sounds of my mom slamming doors, and well, other loud scary noises she made when she was angry. 

We studied my physical reaction to noise and I always squint my right eye and turn away as though I’m about to be hit. I mean it just seems to make sense. But do you guys think that’s really a thing? 

Does anyone else experience something similar? Phobias that are indirectly/directly related to childhood/adolescent abuse/trauma? 

No need to go into detail!