hello - Charlotte, was it? - I can appreciate your distress, especially the part about others being mystified by this condition that to you is inescapable. They will say (or think) that your complaint is petty, when it is anything but. My wife catherine has misophonia and like you she went years before she discovered the name of this condition. In her case, it manifests as an acute focus, hypervigilance, and dreaded anticipation of particular sounds associated with breathing and chewing. Loud chewing by anyone is a trigger, but with me in particular it's not loudness but some sort noise my jaw makes while eating (a noise no one else hears). Her misophonia has gradually gotten worse over the 37 years we've been together, such that i have to eat seperately from cath & my daughter. It's very sad, for all of us. The extra weird thing is, her sensitivity is amplified by the fact that as (otherwise) happily married people she's doomed to encounter this jaw sound for the rest of her life. If you still visit this channel, can you tell me if you're come across any therapy or device that can mitigate misophonia in the intervening years?
I have misophonia too and I feel like no one understands and even my doctor didn’t get it she thought I had OCD. At school one kid in my class also had misophonia. He had more trouble controlling outbursts than I did(I’m not saying this was bad it’s just the reason people found out) He left the school about 2 years ago and ever since he left people continue to ridicule this hatred of certain sounds(mainly chewing and related sounds) No one in my class knows I have this problem and people don’t understand when I get annoyed at them. My mom and dad yell at me for it and have caused me to have panic attacks. Now I self harm as it helps me cope. I can’t even stand the thought of eating anymore. I feel like I’m on a fast downward spiral.
hello - Charlotte, was it? - I can appreciate your distress, especially the part about others being mystified by this condition that to you is inescapable. They will say (or think) that your complaint is petty, when it is anything but. My wife catherine has misophonia and like you she went years before she discovered the name of this condition. In her case, it manifests as an acute focus, hypervigilance, and dreaded anticipation of particular sounds associated with breathing and chewing. Loud chewing by anyone is a trigger, but with me in particular it's not loudness but some sort noise my jaw makes while eating (a noise no one else hears). Her misophonia has gradually gotten worse over the 37 years we've been together, such that i have to eat seperately from cath & my daughter. It's very sad, for all of us. The extra weird thing is, her sensitivity is amplified by the fact that as (otherwise) happily married people she's doomed to encounter this jaw sound for the rest of her life. If you still visit this channel, can you tell me if you're come across any therapy or device that can mitigate misophonia in the intervening years?
I have misophonia too and I feel like no one understands and even my doctor didn’t get it she thought I had OCD. At school one kid in my class also had misophonia. He had more trouble controlling outbursts than I did(I’m not saying this was bad it’s just the reason people found out) He left the school about 2 years ago and ever since he left people continue to ridicule this hatred of certain sounds(mainly chewing and related sounds) No one in my class knows I have this problem and people don’t understand when I get annoyed at them. My mom and dad yell at me for it and have caused me to have panic attacks. Now I self harm as it helps me cope. I can’t even stand the thought of eating anymore. I feel like I’m on a fast downward spiral.