Misophonia - What sounds can you simply not stand?

Dublin taxi drivers talking.

Loud eating & loud drinking. I never thought loud drinking is possible but now I sit next to someone in work who smacks his lips after every sip of water.

I have to wear some massive headphones so I can focus and stop getting annoyed. People should be taught basic manners at home. It’s not that difficult really!

So many....

People eating, even if they manage to keep their mouth closed, if it’s a quiet room and I can hear you chewing I have to leave!

Keyboard clicks on a phone.... ffs, why do you even have this turned on?

Snoring.... induces rage in me... but in fairness, I’m such a light sleeper (especially now at 38 weeks pregnant) that I’d hear a mouse farting in the next room.

Heavy breathing

People talking at the top of their voices.... we’re neither deaf nor in a packed pub, why are shouting?

That caterwauling type singing that the likes of Florence and The Machine/Adele do. I have to leave the room.

Wowowowooooohohohohhowowow

Wibbs wrote: »

Can't think of any TBH. Snoring maybe, yeah snoring. But that's more about not being able to tune it out and not getting decent sleep because of it.

Misophonia is more of an irrational involuntarily reaction. I don't think nails on a blackboard even counts because that's something almost everyone finds horrible. This is things like some posters mentioned like the sound of crisp packets rustling being intolerable and causing anxiety.

I don't experience it either BTW. Just the normal irritation at hearing someone masticating.

It's liked to irrational revulsion at certain words like the word 'moist'. Stuff You Should Know did a podcast about it years ago. Really interesting.

retro:electro wrote: »

Chaaavan people eat thur dinner ouhova dhrarrrr

ROFL :D:D....that is exactly how they drawl it out

Never knew there was a name for it until recently but I get really irritated listening to people eat. Especially crunchy foods like crisps.

I suffer from this. Its not so much annoying noises, the average annoying noise like eating with an open mouth is annoying to most people.

It's the reaction that noise brings, like feeling like you're going to break into a sweat, and a genuine feeling of anger towards the culprit.

Plus you may get that reaction to other noises that the majority wouldn't notice.

I left the room for 5 minutes today because a colleague beside me was eating crisps. Not just standard crisp eating either, but really really slow chew so that every crunch was long and drawn out.

People who have a particularly noisy gulp when they drink. We all probably know someone who does it, apparently caused by a type of reflux, or by having a larger than usual larynx or something.

My wife does it, and one of my bosses. Makes me flinch every time.

Some people have Misphonia really severely, cripplingly so. Like they freak out and have a panic attack because someone is making a noise that sets them off.

Is it a form of mental illness? I'd see it more like a phobia, of irritating noises. I's certainly irrational. It has been compared to some features of autism.

Ps I have given serious thought to selling a car because I couldn't locate the source of a rattle.