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geekhack Community => Off Topic => Topic started by: i3oilermaker on Tue, 11 March 2014, 09:42:17
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Misophonia, literally "hatred of sound", is a neurological disorder in which negative experiences (anger, flight, hatred, disgust) are triggered by specific sounds.
My sister has this - it is primarily eating sounds (chewing, smacking, slurping), heavy breathing, and certain other triggers that are beyond our comprehension of unbearable. In attempt to spread awareness, I am helping her sell rubber bracelets.
I'm not looking for a favor or a purchase here, just trying to help spread her cause with the hope that more awareness may spur more research towards a treatment or cure. If you know someone who has this, perhaps sending them this may help them feel they are not alone.
http://misophonia.yolasite.com/ (http://misophonia.yolasite.com/)
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Thanks for sharing, I had never heard of this. (No pun intended.)
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Sorry to hear your sister is struggling with this. I'd bet that most people have a minor form of this at least -- nails on a chalkboard, squeaky styrofoam, etc. It must really suck when commonly heard sounds trigger it for you though.
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I think I have something like this. The sounds of pouring water from a kettle into a cup sometimes makes me want to hurl the kettle and cup through the nearest window. Seriously.
I tell myself it will be over soon, or try to pour quietly.
I can only imagine what it must be like for someone more sensitive to a wider range of sounds.
As for nails on a chalkboard, all I hear ia a scratching sound.
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I'm sure I don't have it but certain types of voices make me want to ****ing kick the **** out of their entire body.
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heavy breathing
(http://i.imgur.com/KWl6pqT.jpg)
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Like when a professor uses chalk on a black board and it just screeches ? I really despise that sound.
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Its more like Rowdy said....there are noises that people find unpleasant, even irritating, but that is not the disease. The disease is when you hear a noise and it triggers a flight or fight response where the rage that ensues can be difficult to contain or bear.
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Is it something that can be cured or treated? Like **** having something like Rowdy would probably kill me
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There are coping mechanisms and developmental treatments, but really no cure.
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That's why it's called a "syndrome" - because there is no known cure.
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I get it from ringing phones, high pitched computer fans and car alarms.
By about the third ring on a traditional house phone I start bouncing off of the walls, by the 5th, I'm ready to start breaking things, which is completely out of character for me. I usually have the patience of a nun.
It was a significant factor in deciding to quit the dot com I worked at, and why my computers are in the basement with me upstairs.
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I get it from ringing phones, high pitched computer fans and car alarms.
By about the third ring on a traditional house phone I start bouncing off of the walls, by the 5th, I'm ready to start breaking things, which is completely out of character for me. I usually have the patience of a nun.
It was a significant factor in deciding to quit the dot com I worked at, and why my computers are in the basement with me upstairs.
Ahh during my first interview for med school I read of an interesting case, the situation regarding phones is actually one of the more common Misophonia Syndromes, neurologically it's adaptive behavior, usually caused by neurological change (fever, shock, seizure). Apparently it's borderline OCD and part schizophrenia which correlates at a certain pitch or rhythm which triggers neuron receptors for fear/irrational behavior.
In that case, the man who had Misophonia after hearing an old 1980's phone ring would actually have black outs and seizures, really scary because at times he would for all intents and purposes be qualified under sleep walking.
It's interesting but currently I don't believe that the medical field is researching on situational syndromes (sadly) and more so throwing millions into HIV and Cancer research. I believe that a temporary solution is foam earpieces that block certain frequencies, but it must be annoying.. There are also hearing aids that tone out certain pitches or converts them to a more bearable frequency. I'll ask my professor later :).
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The worst I get is the screeching on a chalkboard actually gives me goosebumps where my skin gets all bumpy =.= hate ittt
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I don't believe that the medical field is researching on situational syndromes (sadly) and more so throwing millions into HIV and Cancer research
never heard of someone dying from situational syndromes.
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I don't believe that the medical field is researching on situational syndromes (sadly) and more so throwing millions into HIV and Cancer research
never heard of someone dying from situational syndromes.
I heard a man once died from the sound that nails on a blackboard makes.
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Found this today:
http://www.bbc.com/news/health-38842561
And the video version if that's more your thing (although they do play a lot of the triggering sounds, so if you're a sufferer it might be safer to just read the text version linked above):
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-38849776
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Tp4 gets nervous hearing the popo sound.. whirrrrll... // hit the deck..
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nails on a chalkboard, squeaky styrofoam, etc
My wife has 2 of these: one is the sound of silverware on pans and plates, even the slightest scraping noise sets her off, and the other is dissonant (non)"music" particularly on the piano. For example, if someone walked up to a piano and simultaneously pressed several black keys at random, she would lose it. (My love of avant-garde classical and experimental music is completely alien to her, of course, and a theremin is her worst nightmare.)
My son, who is like her in many ways, has an aversion to squeaking styrofoam (apparently a common one) but I think that it is only emotional (aka "in his head") rather than the truly visceral reaction like the medical condition indicates.
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Tp4 gets nervous hearing the popo sound.. whirrrrll... // hit the deck..
LOLLL
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https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/may/24/research-reveals-why-some-find-the-sound-of-others-eating-so-irritating
https://www.jneurosci.org/content/early/2021/05/20/JNEUROSCI.0261-21.2021