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Chewed out for chewing: Little-known disorder leaves sufferers frustrated by ordinary sounds
It described people having intense reflex reactions to ordinary sounds that most people don't even notice: food noises, sniffling and coughing, for example. I now had a name for all those humiliating reactions I've had. "People with misophonia have extreme reactions to ordinary sounds … but it can include other things, like visual things." "It seems there's something going on where the brain is interpreting these sounds as if they are dangerous," said Jaffe. With her clients, Jaffe uses an approach that redirects the brain and its associations to sounds.
Source: CBC News December 24, 2020 09:22 UTC
