Misophonia

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Does anyone else suffer with it?! I'm sat here listening to my husband SLURP his gravy and it's knocking me sick 😂 i dread dinner times, puts me in a bad mood
Is there even a cure for this awful problem? Misophonia not the husband 😂

I do and it’s miserable. I struggle especially at work and with people chewing loudly. Especially gym and apples.

It is miserable isn't it, people don't realise how bad it is. My husband chews so loud I could cry sometimes. I couldn't be around anyone eating an apple 🤢

I put music on when we're eating. Takes the edge off

Yes I suffer badly with this, have since teenage years. It's horrible. I can't be around my daughter when she eats chewy things. I feel like I can physically feel my ears burning

Yes! and my DH is my biggest big trigger of it! His jaw clicks when he eats, he sucks his teeth after he's brushed them, he does a maddening hiccup/burp thing and yawns constantly and loudly! Weirdly he is a very quiet drinker! My DM on the hand, almost downs a cup of coffee, slurping it all the way 🤯

I also definitely have trichophobia, wonder if they're linked at all?

if my DH eats something with just a fork he uses his teeth to get the food off the fork rather than lips. The teeth scraping on the fork makes me murderous. His parents were here recently for several weeks and they both do it too. I had to excuse myself from dinner a few times as I just couldn’t cope with it.

Oh that's weird cause I have that too

He wouldn't still be alive if he was my DH 😅

Yes I have it, any sound can set it off but particularly eating noises.

I have always had bouts of it - it gets worse when I am under too much stress generally - but I am currently experiencing a massive overload of it and it’s affecting me to the extent that I have constant headaches and my hair is falling out. I feel tearful and angry almost all the time. There’s absolutely fuck all I can do about it, because the source is my dad, who moved in with me 8 months ago after his partner died. I’m his carer now because he has Alzheimer’s and various other health problems. He is delightful, kind and appreciative and I do want him here - but he taps, jerks his legs, hums, drums his fingers, huffs and blows, waves his arms, whistles, mutters, shuffles papers, rummages, snorts and grunts…all day, every day, without relief. I spend a LOT of time in the garden.

I have a grandchild with ADHD inattentive and one of his symptoms is Misophonia. I’m now at the stage where I get him to wear his headphones in certain situations because there are some things that are too much to expect of those around him.

I have to wear earplugs when DH is eating.

He finds it hysterical. I do not.

Missaphonia can be a co-morbid of certain things like ADHD and Autism for ex but you’d have to google as to wether trichophobia is. I wouldn’t be surprised if it is though.

I did, I had to get over it as my child was born with a cleft and even after surgery her lips do not fully close so she makes a lot of noise when she eats.

I just had to endure it as I had no choice and now I still hear it but I don't get the anger anymore.

My husband gulps and drinks so loud I can't believe it sometimes, he grunts, does the hiccup/burp thing too and his breathing is absolutely ridiculous. The jaw clicking would send me over the edge I think

Low oestrogen apparently makes it worse. Another thing to add to the meno list..,

I might have to do the same. It's definitely not funny!

I have it. My kids and DH eating drives me up the wall. If my DH eats at his desk beside me, I have to get up and leave the room.

if it’s really bad, you could try some loop earplugs or something along those lines.

I have misophonia, as does my mother, so maybe it’s heritable in some way. It’s much worse when I’m tired, stressed or overwhelmed.

Thankfully my husband is a quiet eater, but his father is horrendously noisy, as is his brother - snorting, belching, scraping plates. I don’t know how my mother-in-law stands it.

I've found my people and share in your misery.

I have to wear earphones on public transport or my face would be in the paper for going on a murderous rampage.

As for home....my children are perfect eaters having lived with me most of their lives. My boyfriend...I don't understand how a human body makes so much noise. His jaw squeaks when he chews, he drinks like a thirsty goat, clears his throat constantly, sighs like the weight of the world is on his shoulders as walks so heavily I think he'll fall through the ceiling. He's oblivious to how much noise he makes just existing.

Does anyone else have the sort of misophonia where they can't even bear to look at the onomatopoeic words?

I have to scroll the screen so it doesn't show me words like g-lp. And sl-rp.

Though thinking about them to blank them out was also unnecessarily gross.

Loop earplugs are my saviour!!

Yes!

My husband does. He especially can't stand cereal & crisps. Made worse by the fact I love love love crunchy food. He leaves the room when I eat cereal & I avoid eating crisps around him if I can avoid it. We have an agreement that the problem is his, ie he can't moan at me, but I am understanding so I don't get frustrated if he eats separately & I try my best to minimise eating the worst items around him

Does anyone have an official diagnosis - or is it self diagnosis only? I really struggle and actually today had to loop-up and then take myself away from the trigger.