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information about misophonia

arguablyrandom:

some behaviours that i’ve personally experienced and seen before:

- trying to cover ears with hair

- abrupt head movements, like theyre trying to shake the sound out of their head

- shifting in their seat

- heavy breathing

- flushed face

- visibly tense

- trying to covertly cover their ears with their hands without looking rude or strange

- nervously tapping any surface they can find

- mimicking a sound someone is making (like chewing louder than you)

- shooting glares or frightened glances in sound’s direction (even if its not a person making the noise)

- wide eyes

- nervous leg jiggling

- clenching fists

A lot of misophoniacs:

- wish they were deaf (i was one of them for a long time)

- carry headphones everywhere 

- aren’t violent

- are very good at hiding their distress

- meditate

- take anxiety medication

Notes:

- misophonia triggers the fight or flight response

- most reactions to trigger sounds are involuntary

- most (if not all) of us have an involuntary muscle twitch somewhere on our body when we hear our trigger noises. it can be literally anywhere

- cannot be helped by desensitization (has been recorded to make it worse)

- even thinking about noises can cause them to develop into triggers

- we’re not supposed to read up about other triggers because it can cause us to develop them

- a lot of us also have misokinesia (which is a visual version of misophonia)

- reading about misokinesia can cause you to develop misokinesia (i learned this the hard way. whoops)

- it is not caused by trauma

- it’s a neurological disorder (meaning it’s the wiring in our brain)

- it rears its ugly head around the time puberty starts

- is a lifetime disorder that gets worse with age

- IS SELF-DIAGNOSABLE

- has caused suicides

- and literally almost no one knows about it

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  10. mortalrealities said: @arguablyrandom me too. it’s very annoying and most of the time i just isolate myself when i’m not eating.
  11. arguablyrandom said: @mortalrealities I hope you can get help :( I can’t imagine being in a family that refuses to accomodate.
  12. mortalrealities said: @arguablyrandom i’ve tried. actually, the country i live in has an institute of sorts that studies with misophonia. they want me to go there, so i hope maybe i can get help there.
  13. arguablyrandom said: @mortalrealities it’s not. misophonia is a lifelong disorder and it gets worse with age, and desensitisation only makes it worse. can you show them articles? research?
  14. mortalrealities said: @arguablyrandom not really :/ they really want me to idk cope with the sounds and be able to live without having to use headphones but is that even possible?
  15. arguablyrandom said: @mortalrealities that’s so awful. I can’t even fathom how psychologically painful that must be. is there no way to explain to them that what they’re doing is extremely damaging to you and your mental well-being?
  16. mortalrealities said: @misophoniasupportblog my family doesn’t allow me to, nor do they allow me to eat in another room. they want me to be 100% present so i can be a part of the family.
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