Misophonia what is it?
So misophonia is an extreme emotional reaction to typically occurring sounds, so Miso means hate Phoneia sounds Misophonia hate the sound, but it's not hating sounds in general it's hating only specific sounds we call these trigger sounds and it's also been known this condition mate is also known as selective sound sensitivity syndrome R4S.
This is really a better name for the condition because there are specific sounds selective sounds that the person is extremely sensitive to.
However misophonia is really the more popular name for this condition now.
So what does misophonia not well it's not a sensitivity to the volume of the sounds to how loud the sound is, that's Hyperacusis and that's common especially in small children, it's not a fear of a sound that's phone a phobia and that's also common in children both of Hyperacusis and phono phobia are common with autism for example, and in young children being scared by the toilet or the vacuum cleaner sound right these are this is not misophonia.
Misophonia is not being irritated or upset by a continuous loud intrusive or an irritating sound there are people who when they're in this situation where there's this repeating sound it just becomes so upsetting to them these people are generally considered a highly sensitive person, they're just their level of tolerance for these obnoxious or irritating situations as not as high as with some other people and so they get upset for example a person with that it would be just a highly sensitive person and not have misophonia is it if they're if they hear a car drive by it doesn't bother them, but they hear a car drive by knowing that they're going to be hearing that car all day long is going to be intrusive into their life all day, then they start becoming very very upset by it so that's not misophonia that's a highly sensitive person now a person that's highly sensitive can also have misophonia so and there may be certain sounds that they are just sensitive to but others that are Musa finding sounds and misophonia is not reacting to something like nails on the chalkboard right or a baby crying or a knife on a bottle or a disk grinder or a female scream we call that normal these are sounds they're part of the top 10 most irritating sounds and that's normal to have sounds like that that you don't like that bother you.*/
Now with misophonia there is an immediate reaction to the trigger stimulus, and it can be generally sound or sight and it's this immediate involuntary response it's jerked out of the person, essentially the triggers are generally soft sounds you if you don't have misophonia or if it's not a trigger sound you may not even hear the sound, but for a person with misophonia if they're you know in a room and someone across the room starts popping their gum they're gonna hear it feel it and it's a misophonia trigger so and there's strong emotions with misophonia almost universally you find emotions of hate, anger, rage and disgust resentment being offended these people want to get away from the sound or make it stop and in many cases the person's thinking of a verbal or a physical ressault on the other person, and this can be very extreme unwanted ugly thoughts of harming the other person that's making the sound but rarely do people with misophonia act out on these these impulses misophonia triggers generally start with a familiar person and a sound.
It's something in the person's life and if you look at the common sounds that we experience as individuals eating sound, dinner table sounds, are very common in our life and eating sounds or mouth noises are the most common triggers for misophonia kind of the second class of second most common is breathing our nose sounds, nose whistles, heavy breathing, sighing, snoring, anything associated with breathing is are often trigger sounds but really it can be any repeating sound and the list of known triggers is like the list of all repeating sounds in the world so it's not that these triggers come because a person is familiar it's in that situation and develops this misophonia trigger response and then you find that triggers if it starts with one person or one sound then it spreads to multiple people, similar sounds, other places, sites associated, with those sounds so with time these triggers spread and spread now visual triggers that generally I guess you could have misophonia start with a visual trigger but that seems to be rare but the visual triggers any visual image that occurs immediately before the trigger can become a trigger for example if I'm triggering to chewing then bringing
the food on my fork to my mouth could be a trigger if I trigger to chewing putting food into my mouth could be a trigger images that occur with the trigger can also become trigger stimulus for example jaw movement associated with with chewing is very common as a trigger and especially if someone triggers to gum popping then the gum chewing visual is almost always a trigger for those people, and it can even be images that occur repeatedly after being triggered although this is less common, also we find that repetitive movements such as leg jiggling or hair twirling these are common trigger stimuli, but I don't really know why wellhow need to do more research so if a person has misophonia what's the prognosis? well for one thing it doesn't just go away with time or getting older that generally it gets progressively worse it can be stable for years and then it can miss escalate and then be stable at that level and then escalate again it does seem to lessen let's say the upheaval associated with misophonia tends to lessen as the team matures into adulthood because first off they learn that they're going to be triggered and they they can't have it there's another no other choice they're just gonna have to deal with this unpleasant reaction and many people learn to suffer in silence you know if I scream and yell at my mom and does it get any better and I scream and yell at my friends and I ostracize my friends and it makes my life worse then I learned to cope I learned to suffer in silence one lady said that when she was triggered she would just go into another room and cry and and people also learned to modify her that modify their life to cope with with misophonia many people with misophonia would never go to a movie theater because the popcorn crunching that is there and it would be intolerable, they also modify their work conditions they'll I know of one case where a person dropped out of MIT who was doing very well they were a junior I believe and became a machinist because the sound of the of the machines was not you know blocked out trigger sounds and they just couldn't take the trigger sounds in the classroom, and you find that misophonia is very detrimental to relationships really takes a caring patient spouse to deal with with a with a spouse who has misophonia to their sounds and their sights it's really very detrimental.
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