".... but I have extreme phobic reactions at the continuous barking of a dog. It all started about five years ago, when a family across the road bought a puppy. After hearing a particularly long period of barking a couple of days later, I looked out the window and saw the dog at their french windows, clearly wanting to go in - and the owners just standing there with the door shut, looking through the glass teasing it, refusing to open the door. The dog was still barking over 2 hours later!! Well to cut a *very* long story short, from that day onwards for the next 3 years, that dog barked from 6.30 in the morning until 11 or 12 at night - with the occasional 5 minute interval here and there. I had a breakdown because of this a couple of years ago. I was quite literally living in earplugs, I couldn't answer the phone or the door as I was terrified of taking them out and hearing 'that' sound, I had to watch tv with headphones, I became a complete recluse, as I just didn't have anything inside me, I couldn't cope with people. I couldn't cope with anything. If it hadn't have happened to me, I wouldn't have believed one dog could destroy someone's life to such an extent. "

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