Misophonia can affect your daily life and cause you to withdraw socially or have trouble with relationships. You can try cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to help change your responses to triggering ...

A little-known sensory condition can make everyday noises such as chewing and crunching unbearable, leading to stress and even panic. Stacey Leasca is an award-winning journalist with nearly two ...

Called "trigger sounds" by the misophonia community, the response can be an immediate and intense fight or flight feeling. Publishing today in Current Biology, the researchers report the first ...

Most of us can relate to feeling uncomfortable when someone scrapes their nails down a chalkboard. For those with the condition misophonia, sounds like slurping, snoring, breathing, and chewing can ...

A study comparing individuals with misophonia with healthy people found that a triggering sound, that of a buzzing fly, significantly impaired the ability of individuals with misophonia to perceive ...

Rachel Fairbank is a freelance science writer based in Texas. When she is not writing, she can be found spending time with her family, or at her local boxing gym. If there are certain sounds that ...

If the sounds of chewing, crunching, slurping, yawning, pen clicking, tapping, water dripping, sniffling, whistling and breathing make you angry or even panicked, you may have misophonia. The term, ...

Imagine sitting in a classroom, and suddenly, someone walks up to the chalkboard and drags their nails across it. Can you feel the surge of irritation in your body? Perhaps your face twisting into a ...

Misophonia is a "strong dislike or hatred of specific sounds or noises," explains Juanita Guerra, PhD, a clinical psychologist based in New Rochelle, New York. Examples of such noises include heavy ...

For individuals with misophonia, a fight-flight-freeze response occurs when they are subjected to certain sounds or visuals. For these individuals, extreme emotional distress, panic, anger, ...

If certain sounds send chills up your spine, you might be struggling with misophonia. Here’s a questionnaire to help you know. Have you ever heard a certain sound and become overwhelmed with anger, ...