Living with Misophonia (Selective Sound Sensitivity Syndrome)

Hello wonderful misophonia-enthusiasts! I wanted to provide an update before I make a new YouTube video on the topic - I am participating in a study for misophonia through Duke University. If you want to help their cause I'd encourage you to reach out to them. I just completed my first study and it was a doozy but I'm glad I did it! Findings will not be reported for some time but I'll be sure to update all over my social medias. If you are interested, please turn on YouTube notifications and follow me on IG, discord, and Twitch - spreading misophonia awareness is super important to me and I do try to talk about it often! Anywho... thanks for keeping the comments so uplifting and honest. <3

The worst thing about misophonia is that when I get triggered I wanna murder the people that caused me pain and then I feel bad for even thinking about it..

I HAVENT RELATED TO ANYTHING MORE!!! misophonia needs more awareness!!!

One of the hardest parts of misophonia is the fact that no one around you seems to care since they don’t understand it’s real and not personal. In fact, my (ex) therapist laughed when I told her about it! It’s something very personal to me so I balled my eyes out of course. It’s interesting that you react with anger by the way. I react with intense sadness and sometimes anger. When my misophonia first started I was triggered by myself making the sound and I hated myself for it. There was also no exceptions for my trigger unfortunately. Whether it was on purpose or loud or soft or made by one person or the other I was always triggered.

When you talked about your dad being your first trigger, oh my god, I relate to that so much. I love my dad so much but his chewing makes me want to punch him in the jaw. Its absolutely terrible and the worst thing is no one believing you. Thank You for bringing awareness!!

I wonder if purring cats has a reverse misophonia effect. Purring cats is extremely relaxing to me.

If your friends are trying to trigger you they aren’t real friend. All my friends were understanding, whether they tried to avoid the sound or not.

I cried watching this. I'm 30 years old and have struggled my whole life. I've even lost friends because of misophonia. I get angry. My heart races, my face gets red, I have to walk away.

I'm so sick of this disorder that sometimes I wish I were deaf instead

Honestly my cat helps me so much with my misophonia. She just plops right nexts to me and starts purring. It makes me happy and calms me down.

12:30!!! Snoring, loud chewing, gulping, heavy breathing, coughing repeatedly, throat clearing repeatedly, sniffing repeatedly are all my triggers. My family trigger me the most. I’ve been dealing with this since I was 12, I’m now 22, and it’s not getting any better. I agree with everything you said. I wouldn’t say it’s mild either.

Im in tears. I have this and its very serious because I almost always drop in tears. When i bring this tô someone, they Will always be very angry at me. I wished i never be born because my sensibilite to sounds affects my family and friends. Everyone says that my problem affects their freedoom of making The noise. I tried so many terapies but anyone worked. My mom says i like having this problem. But I wished so much i was normal. Be strong. Thanks for your braveness of bringing this up. Kisses from Brasil 🇧🇷

I honestly have it so bad that if i could go deaf I WOULD!

People making noises that trigger me on purpose impacts me, and I completely lash out.

I actually feel more calm knowing about this, certain sounds make me so ANGRY, to the point where I want to cry even. Other ones make me panicy and almost like my skin crawl and i'm uncomfortable and want to cry and run away

Something that helps is white noise. You can still hear people talking but don’t hear soft sounds.

I live with one of the loudest chewers. It’s pure hell. With his mouth closed, I hear every noise while chewing and swallowing his food. Omg!!!

I have never related to a video more, thank you so much for making this! When I was about 14 I started to get SUPER anxious and angry (to the point of tears and outbursts) when I heard people eat. It’s never gone away and a lot of my ‘tactics’ are similar to you! I eat with other people because I can deal with my own chewing... I put headphones in even without music on... etc. This is something I’m embarrassed to talk about but this video has definitely comforted me. I hope I can make a similar vid at some point soon!!

I feel you you gave me the answers my therapist looked at me like I was crazy

I have been dealing with misophonia since I was a young child. I am 48 now, but it was only until youtube came along that I knew that others were suffering with this as well. People need to realize that we really do suffer from this and this is not a laughing matter or something to be ridiculed. We are not joking about these feelings and we don't want to be this way. Great video.