Anyone else get misophonia so bad it makes them want to hurl

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Forks scratching plates, I hate it. It hits my ears like a dog whistle immediately banishing me to another room. Thanksgiving is a horrific damnation, Christmas dinner at my house and I'm immediately eating in my room.

Gnashing, gnawing, chewing, and I almost feel like I'm going to commit manslaughter.

I either want to vomit or kill I can't stand it.

Misophonia is a horrible thing to have because it makes one so misunderstood. While I don't have any issues with the sound of people eating, I do have severe misophonia with the sound of babies crying. It is the most innocuous sound in the world that everyone is conditioned to tolerate, but not me. Whenever I hear the sound of a baby crying my anxiety levels rise and I feel like screaming "shut the f**k up!! !" Yes, I hate babies. I just cannot bear the sound of it even if it's in the next room. I get the same reaction as other people with misophonia get with the sound of chewing or the OP with forks scratching plates.

For me, it's metal scraping metal, like when someone scrapes a metal pan with a fork, or metal spatula. It's the worst, I swear it makes my teeth hurt. The sound of a circular saw going through wood also...just no.

Misophonia isn't just about noises, it's also about visual movement causing meltdowns. I have both kinds.

My sound misophonia is triggered by dozens of sounds, but mostly soft ones. In general, loud sounds are easier to deal with because they block out all other sound. I don't like loud sounds like construction vehicles but I doubt they'd give me a meltdown and even if they did, that's pretty normal to hate loud or obnoxious sounds. My problem with softer sounds is that I can't filter which one I'm supposed to listen to. If I hear a random few sounds in unison it overwhelms me and I have to put my hands over my ears even if someone is speaking to me. I spend most of my time in noise-cancelling headphones and I can't sleep without earplugs. Worst sounds: Voices on TV or radio, "crinkle" sounds like snack packaging, paper bags, cutlery, tooth brushing, and styrofoam or anything else that squeaks. Last week my mum had new medicine in a paper bag and she kept opening and shutting the bag or even moving it on her lap and I wanted to physically punch her. I was enraged by the sound.

Vision: Repetitive movement makes me angry. If people keep walking back and forth in my line of vision or do the same motions over and over again I have to shut my eyes to avoid a panic attack. I always want to scream at people to sit the heck down and stop moving. For example, when I'm driving I can't tolerate movement from the people in the car ahead of me. If there are passengers in the back seat of the car ahead of me and they turn their heads a lot or the person in the front swings around to talk to the people in the back I have to change lanes or get off the road to avoid road rage.

This makes sense to me.

I get this to a certain extent but I'm lucky I live a very quiet life. I'm sorry that you suffer so badly, this world is so loud.

I can't wait until the combustion engine goes out of use. When everything is electricity powered the whole world will be a lot quieter.

Once upon a time, I did.

Turns out it's a manifestation of my mental health getting worse during childhood. It suddenly appeared after 3rd grade. It just got worse from there.

... Then it was gone at some point when I first wanting to go back to school from a 2 year long hiatus from life.


At the present, I get this one sided temporary hyperacusis for sneezing too often.
Painful as it can be, and yet no misophonia.

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My daughter's misophonia revolves around bird calls. It basically ruined her primary school
She's better at managing it now that she's older, that all you can do, teach coping skills and get headphones

Mostly avoidance. But she seems to be coming to terms with it with age.

For me the sound(s) is just very unpleasant and sets me on edge. I'll leave the room if I can. It's mostly eating or mouth noises for me. I also can't stand when people snort, I want to literally slap them.

I've also found that I became a b***h when in my peer group, as other people's verbal stims can also set me off. Depends on what they are.

Another person in the group used to have tremors due to antipsychotic drugs and while she couldn't help it it really got on my last nerve a lot of the time if she was sitting in front of me.

I get rapid heartbeat whenever I hear a baby crying. I try my hardest to tolerate it, as it is frowned upon to get annoyed of a baby's cry (even though the sound of a baby's cry is supposed to be annoying, as it's nature's way of getting the caregiver's attention to tend to it), but the rest of us are supposed to not feel the natural effects of a baby's cry at all and put up with it.

The sound of a baby crying annoying me is like the sound of a dog barking annoys some people. I'd far rather hear the sound of a dog barking from the neighbours than the sound of a neighbour's baby crying. The sound of a baby or a toddler crying just makes me want to melt down.

I also can't stand the sound of loud coughing or sneezing. Usually people with sudden loud sneezes triggers off an exaggerated startle reaction for me, and people with loud coughs is irritatingly distracting.

So, if you think about it, it seems to be the lungs of human beings that produce the most annoying sounds in the world, for me anyway.

I hate misophonia because it can make you come across as an inconsiderate jerk if you get upset by noises that are innocuous and can't be helped.

Has anyone found any solace or coping strategies for Misophonia?

I'm at my wit's end.

I went to the audiologist looking for prescription noise-cancellers so I could put them on my health insurance. She said she wasn't allowed to prescribe anything like that. Her job is only to amplify sound and make it freaking louder or more clear for people. She can't make it go away even if that person is at the end of their rope and close to having a nervous breakdown from Hyperacusis and/or Misophonia.

I'll try again with my GP but we've talked about it before and she says it's an anxiety disorder so it needs psych. No kidding, I guess, but Hyperacusis isn't just anxiety. It's bionic hearing. That has to be medical on some level.

I'm in constant rage mode because of other people's sound. Footsteps. Opening and shutting doors. Talking. Eating. Flushing toilets. Brushing teeth. Crinkling a bag. Clinking a glass. The only way to avoid it is sitting in the pitch dark with my headphones on (they aren't great), AND my hands over my ears, and not even looking at anyone. That means isolating myself in other parts of the house, not going outside, and not interacting with people -- almost ever.

We aren't allowed Valium where I live. Benzos don't do much, but they make me depressed instead.

Maybe I'll start a Go Fund Me for NC headphones that actually work, because I sure as hell can't afford them myself.

I had something like that but they didn't work for soft sounds, which are my problem.
They blocked louder sounds.
Plus, I kept losing them because of ADHD.