Misophonia: HATRED of sound

This enraged response is severe enough to make me daydream about destroying the noise source. I mean smashing it to bits and then some. A ticking clock on a classroom wall could disturb my rational thought to the point that I could not concentrate on the lecture or a test . I had truly thought I would go mad and have to be restrained. So far, I have managed to not be arrested. Had misophonia since childhood and am now 80.

Thank you for normalizing this! Misophonia is absolutely no joke, I live near a busy street and when loud vehicles and especially motorcycles go by I want to yell the most horrible violent things out my window, it makes me want to throw things, punch the wall, etc. It's horrible. Those aren't the only noises either so it really is very frustrating to deal with. I carry Loop earplugs with me everywhere so if I'm having a particularly bad day so I can pop them in and deaden any noise.

So grateful to hear about this! Dogs barking and door slamming causes rage!

I often think people who enjoy watching and listening to people eating (like ASMR mukbang videos) must be psychopaths.

Thank you! I try to cope with this. If it helps anyone ... I eat when others eat. I also use noise cancelling headphones when it's needed. I thoroughly explained this to my husband and try to remind him of what's bothering me if he forgets (because if your not bothered by it, it's not on your mind). I make game plans to step outside at times or do something else in another room. I also try to stick it out and challenge myself to bear with it at times to try to build a resistance. I pray that a cure is discovered. I'm doing research and will come back to keep updating you all on new discoveries that I find. This condition needs to be taken seriously in the medical community. Anxiety is also something I deal with. So I didn't know I should treat this first. Thanks again for the video! I too feel validated❤!

I feel so validated by this video- especially the end when you discuss how the reaction is a small percentage of what the person is feeling on the inside. I have a very visceral reaction to certain sounds and I hold in so much because I don’t want to seem unreasonable (and it feels unreasonable as you discussed) but it makes me so angry and it almost hurts! Thank you for this video.

I’ve sent a few letters to neighbors who were the cause of my distress at some point. Hammering, idling car, vibrating refrigerator, honking cars, traffic sounds, repeating or chanting words, talking girls during breaks, tapping, slurping, squealing pigs, barking dogs, etc. I thought I was just overacting. This is why I stay up till early mornings just to experience peace. But sleeping in the morning and hearing street sounds kill me every day.

i hate when i hear my neighbours on the other side of the wall when im in the bed (i live in apartment). not only when im trying to sleep, although thats of course extra annoying, but my bed is supposed to be the place where im safe so intrusive sounds there feel almost like an actual assault. ive also noticed this is an age thing for me, i cant remember me being so sensitive about this when i was younger but now im really bothered by noises. i often have fantasies of living somewhere nice and quiet where i only hear the noises of birds and the wind in the trees (although actually bird noises can be really annoying too sometimes haha).

I feel this a lot and it gets much worse depending on my mental health. The worst offenders are traffic noise, my upstairs neighbor, leaf blowers, high pitched noises or noises behind me. It makes me want to fight the whole world more than I already do. I try to harden up since I cant do much about avoiding it. I wear bass cans all the time bc tinnitus and drowning out city noise. Oddly, sirens are one of the few noises im immune to.

If I hear a baby crying it sends me into an internal rage. I can’t tolerate it for long before I have to move away or block my ears. Neighbours making noise, chatting in their gardens or playing music is another one that sends me into a murderous state. I have to wear headphones at home. I recently moved home because of this and bought a detached house in the countryside and it’s so peaceful now.

My parents used to send me away from the table because I would put my hands over my ears and freak out every time someone smacked their lips or chewed loudly. I've spent my adult life wearing earbuds with my favorite music blasting loudly, so I could not hear people around me -- like children screaming, people, talking loudly, sneezing or coughing. Someone told me I had misophonia and that downing out life's sounds with music was my self-therapy.

Hearing lip smacking, toe tapping, whistling, etc. makes me want to slap people, however, hearing booming bass from car stereos makes me want to kill them. I feel enraged just thinking about them. I was diagnosed with ADHD at 50, and have had a lifelong struggle with depression.

Traffic noise, overly loud car engines, leaf blowers, dogs barking, any repetitive noise, horrible pop music, sirens. All enrage me and make me wish people into the corn field! I thought it was just my defective personality.

Oh my gosh, you totally get it! Thank you so much for making this video! I have autism and CPTSD. I have had misophonia my entire 58 years on this earth. I remember when I was a kid and young adult, all I would get from everyone is, "It's not bothering anyone else. Quit being such a whiner." These days I get comments more along the lines of, "What do you mean, there's a noise? I don't hear anything." My rage has always been directed inward, and I have to use a lot of control to keep from taking my frustration out on myself when I hear one of my trigger noises. Using that much energy on that control takes energy away from doing other things, and I end up exhausted.

I remember becoming extremely stressed out by certain kinds of music going back to junior high school. Hearing unwanted music and sounds is its own type of pain and distress that I wouldn't wish on anyone, and I have been suffering from it almost my entire life.

I love this!! Having a misophonia is literally the most tragic thing in my life Everyday I'm finding new triggers and I'm literally trying my hardest to cut off the thought as soon as possible. But sometimes it just wouldn't work. Most of the time I feel like I'm just being too sensitive since the person who's making the noise probably don't even see it as a big problem. Or even themselves are also suffering. For example:Coughing sound I feel like knowing there is someone who understands this feeling is really helpful. SO THANK U!

I have been to the point of half-wishing I was deaf, but then I would miss out on things I really want to hear. My biggest triggers are thumping bass, whispering, gum chewing, high-pitched machines and crying babies. I was the eldest of 8 kids, so you can imagine my childhood-- and then I had colicky twins. I love my twins so much and never showed anger, but sometimes we all ended up crying together lol. They both were misophonic as well, even more than me. Oh yeah, TV shows where the microphone catches every bit of spit in the actors' mouths when they speak or kiss is extremely misophonic for me! There are many more lesser triggers, but it all makes it difficult to live and stay sane sometimes.

I don't know if this counts but I hate loud conversations with obnoxious laughter. Sensory overload perhaps. I am truly grateful for headphones and ear plugs.

The sound of a dog barking (and I find it is more often than not a little dog rather than a big dog) literally drives me to consider horrible ways to make it stop. I love dogs. I would never hurt one…but it pushes a button in me and I either have to leave or try and block it out (noise cancelling earphones) to avoid murderous thoughts about that dog. I also tried to listen to an audiobook recently and I had to stop because I could hear the speaker’s saliva on every single word. It was too much. I never considered myself as having misophonia, just thought I was really sensitive to noise…most likely related to my ADHD… but maybe it’s misophonia 🤔

My thing is the breakroom at work. I go out of my way to try to get in and out before certain coworkers get there. None of them have the common courtesy to use earbuds!!! No one wants to hear this one guy talking at the top of his lungs on his phone, the other asshole will come into a perfectly quiet room (we unfortunately have a TV in it) and the SECOND she walks in the TV has to go on at top volume. She never bothers to ask whether anyone else actually WANTS it on. Considering there's like 10 people already in the room and it ISN'T on might clue her in, but... There's a few others that make my muscles tighten up the second I see them. Please, people, earbuds were invented for a reason! The only way I can cope is the minute they walk in the room is to take off and spend the rest of my break in my car, and it pisses me off because why should I have to leave because these people are being noisy and rude??