yeah Divinitywolf, I sent you a reply in on of the other pages re buddhism.
I think my anxiety over silence stems back to the silence of the exam hall at school, it put the frea of god in me and I left Grammar School with zero qualifications and labelled a failure. However many many years later whilst doing a degree module linked to nursing I was screened and found to be dyslexic so that would explain my fear of silence and exam rooms (a bit like Pavlov and his dogs, A psychology experiment, pavlov rang a bell when presenting the dogs with food, in the end the dogs salivated without the food just by the sound of the bell, a response to stimulus kind of the same with me silence = fear and failure)

