Slurping. Tapping. Crunching. If these noises make you cringe, you're not alone. You may have a little-understood condition called misophonia.
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00:00It is a perception of what most of us would consider normal sounds as either just terribly
00:23irritating or in fact so extreme that they cause anxiety and frustration and anger because
00:31they're almost hurtful in nature.
00:49It starts in children where the cafeteria is just too loud and it goes from the cafeteria
00:57being too loud to the kid tapping the pencil in the classroom is too loud and it goes from
01:03that to I really can't tolerate dinner with everybody or I'm not comfortable watching
01:08TV or watching movies with everybody.
01:11So these are very normal things.
01:13These are things we take for granted that we do.
01:38What happens is that when the complaint is discounted, the anxiety related to it becomes
01:46more excessive.
01:47So it's a real problem that is then made more excessive because even though the person is
01:53trying to seek help, nothing's actively broken that anyone can see.
02:06We process sound in the brain.
02:08So we sub-process it in the ear and we send it along frequency bands to the brain.
02:14The brain puts it all together.
02:16The brain not only processes the sound but then adds emotion.
02:23This really is a brain phenomenon that is misinterpreting normal and loud sounds as
02:30pain.
02:40By making that diagnosis more targeted to what the individual is experiencing, I'm not
02:47telling you you're crazy.
02:49I'm telling you you have a disorder where normal sounds are triggering this response
02:55in your brain.