MISOPHONIA?
 

Misophonia is a disorder in which certain sounds trigger emotional or
physiological responses that some might perceive as unreasonable given the
circumstance. Those who have misophonia might describe it as when a sound
“drives you crazy.” Their reactions can range from anger and annoyance to
panic and the need to flee.


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It’s a real illness and it’s misophonia, not misophobia. At least get the spelling right.

thankyou for pointing out my error which is now corrected

its not an illness it is a neurological disorder

Oh yeah I get that when my kids wont shut up...

When i went to uni i started to work in the Library as you do. There were little individual cubicals that had a strip light above your head that you pulled on and off. after a few visits the low buzz that the light made really began to annoy me and i spent ages hopping from one booth to the next to see if i could find one that did not buzz but they all did and i could not work with the noise - so for the next 4 years i never worked again in the library, which was a pain.

Don’t take the piss out of it either. You won’t know how serious it is until you know someone who actually suffers from it. It’s a horrible disease in its severe form.

Horrible
it may be, but it can be treated with Threapy
or Meds.

There’s no recognised treatment out there yet for it actually. So no it can’t. Not yet.

I don't know anyone who suffers from this but I do know someone who has severe bilateral tinnitus and there has been times where he has been almost suicidal over it. The only treatment he has had suggested is listening to white noise but that doesn't help. Awful to suffer from something that there is literally no help for.

I have a bad habit of tapping my leg under a table constantly without realising

That comes under nail biting and hair twirling

...I’ve known quite a lot of people who do similar, DouglasS...can’t sit still as it were...because they absorb through their bodies../...information etc...and it’s also how their thoughts process as well.../... kinesthetic learning....it’s actually quite interesting to understand how we all process things and there are so many different ways...but the tapping of leg...?...is quite a well known thing for kinesthetic learners...

Some would say it’s a variant of post-traumatic stress disorder and/or OCD (kind of) if you want to get all nitty-gritty. Which do count as bona-fide illnesses. But I do get your point. Kind of. You wouldn’t really call tinnitus an illness as-such. Just one of those weird auditory-neurological things. But misophonia is just that little bit closer to being a mental health condition.

I feel like in this day and age of over-ascribing neurodivergence to every other person and any quirk under the sun (which wasn’t as bad in 2020, when this thread was made, as it is now) stuff like that would be chalked up to ADHD now. But the kinaesthetic style of learning, irrespective of any of that nonsense, is invaluable. Very interesting indeed.

I had actually never heard of this term before.

It's been an interesting thread to read, I'll need to study it up a bit more.

It’s really not much fun for people who have it. Horrible condition.

People who have hyperacusis (a kind of cousin-disorder to misophonia) have found a lot of success with a drug called clomipramine (an antidepressant that’s classically used for things like OCD) and one or two people with misophonia itself say that it’s helped them, too. But besides being able to get that medication prescribed (or ordering it online if their doctor is clueless), it’s hard to treat at the moment. It’s not even an officially diagnosable condition as-of the latest version of diagnostic-code books (the DSM and ICD).

When you have misophonia the current system works against rather than for you. It’s natural to be disillusioned with it when you have to be the biggest advocate for your health and fight the hoops in the system just to be accurately recognised as having what you have. Even shrinks and audio-neurologists don’t know what they’re doing 3 times out of 5 when it comes to things like this. GPs are just pathetically clueless. You battle with a disorder that imposed itself on you as a pre.-teen/9-year-old and find it ruptures your peace between Sunday-school, school, sixth-form, uni., the ’bus/train and work (even when you’re being paid something like 120k a year) because you literally physically can’t tolerate the noise or sight of people sniffing their noses and when you do try to communicate your issues to people who are supposed to help, you’re meant with a question-mark or gross misunderstanding (people with more severe forms of misophonia will know what I’m talking about there). When people suffer like that it creates a certain disillusionment with the medical system at a primary-care level particularly, and that can be real-tough. People just think you’re sensitively intolerant or stuck-up when you really just have a disorder that current diagnostics haven’t caught up with, but like I say, framing misophonia like OCD in a treatment-frame sense and giving medication like clomipramine a go, if not OCD-specific neurosurgeries (like something called cingulotomy), seems to be the way to go at the moment. I don’t think I’m going to win any Nobel prizes for advocating for that and no-doubt some people will see it as a load of random hogwash anyway but just for the sake of giving some hope to people who suffer with this disorder, I hope the relevant type of person reads this post, too.

It doesn't sound very nice.