Why does that gum-chewing sound bother you so much? 😤 | Misophonia

That feeling the people around you don’t understand, but you know all too well: the sound of someone chewing, breathing, or clicking a pen — and the intense, uncontrollable anger rising inside you.
This isn’t grumpiness.
Nor is it a weakness of character.
It’s called misophonia — and the literature is now very clear: the problem isn’t in the ears, but in the brain’s circuitry.

→ The neurobiology of misophonia (anterior insula, amygdala, mirror neurons)
→ Its connection to SPS (Sensory Processing Sensitivity)
→ Trigger sounds and what happens in the body
→ An evidence-based, 3-step roadmap:
1️⃣ Sensory Diet & Trigger Mapping
2️⃣ Sound Masking
3️⃣ Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

📊 A note from the literature: In a randomized controlled trial, CBT had an effect size of d≈1.97 — a large effect size in psychiatry. Misophonia is treatable. (Jager et al., 2022)

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