Misophonia

Does anybody experience Misophonia?
Misophonia is a neurological disorder in which negative experiences (anger, flight, hatred, disgust) are triggered by specific sounds.The sounds can be loud or soft.

Wow. That's a new one. I've never seen it mentioned here. I'll be interested to see what people answer.
A baby crying makes me frustrated, and then feel helpless and angry if it doesn't stop.
(Oh dear. Admitting I get angry at babies sounds pretty terrible)

I think that I read baby crying is supposed to make you feel like that -- genetic measure by Mom Nature. You're not alone skilsaw.

Oh god yes. Dogs barking, people chewing, styrofoam, any noise if its loud enough becomes UNBEARABLE. I wonder if hypersensitivity to sounds is a bipolar thing.

I dissociate when there's too much sound going on. I don't think it's specific things... just chaotic sound in general. As far as hypersensitivity, I've always associated it with the other part of my DX, autism. (It's actually one of the diagnostic criteria now.)

brakingdown wrote:Oh god yes. Dogs barking, people chewing, styrofoam, any noise if its loud enough becomes UNBEARABLE. I wonder if hypersensitivity to sounds is a bipolar thing.

I would echo the exact same things here

I do! The sound of pouring water makes me want to commit murder, and crack in soap bars I cannot tolerate.

Exiled. wrote:I dissociate when there's too much sound going on. I don't think it's specific things... just chaotic sound in general. As far as hypersensitivity, I've always associated it with the other part of my DX, autism. (It's actually one of the diagnostic criteria now.)

This too. I always thought the dissociation from sounds was part of my Asperger's.

I get that when I'm hypo or manic. Sounds become unbearably loud! But it doesn't happen when my mood is normal.

Skilsaw, I get that too, and Oliveira is right. We're supposed to feel that when babies cry. Survival of the species and all that!

Hi, hopefully this thread isn't too old. I've scrounged about certain forums only to be disappointed to find that the users on there were mostly guys looking for a date. I'm a girl and definitely not looking, just had to get that off my chest. But yes I totally have this problem. I'm self-employed and do most of my work from my bedroom and there's this dog that has been living in our neighbourhood for two or three years. This neighbourhood was pretty good for a couple years but it started to get loud during the summer when two of our neighbours started bringing their nephews and granddaughter over to play in their pool, and they all scream the entire time. It's just not normal. We have another family that doesn't have a pool next to us and they are normal, they might shriek occasionally while playing or cry but not like a constant siren like the other kids. My family thinks the two young boys who come to visit on the opposite side of us have ADD, and the young girl in the back may have serious issues as well because she screams all the time and always sounds anxious. So we get that every summer. Three freakishly loud children.
Then there is that dog way in the back two houses behind us. It might as well be right here in our house. It's a cross breed of some kind of hound dog. It's bark is naturally loud, but on top of that it is some kind of control freak/spazz and it FLIPS the ###$ out sometimes if I'm just walking into my bedroom or when I'm starting to wake up (not move or anything, just open my eyes, it somehow knows that we're waking up and freaks out). It makes a lot of noise if I'm sitting quietly in my room until I put music on (I have a theory that it becomes uneasy or senses my own unease more when I'm not listening to music or watching videos), so I have to be plugged in at all times which sucks, because I like silence but there's no such thing as that anymore.
And of course it'll howl and scream (doesn't sound like a normal bark, I tell you this thing ######6 screams) when I step outside without headphones.
Needless to say I lost my mind a log time ago and dream about living off the grid somewhere far away, or visiting a healer and ridding myself of this built up toxic energy from constantly becoming angry that has built up inside of me.