What to do when you hate sounds (misophonia treatment)

How to cope with sounds that make you anxious, angry, or disgusted.

Vanessa Hill's misophonia video:    • The Sounds That Are Unbearable (Misop...  

Support me on Patreon:   / thepsychshow  

Topics Discussed:
- Misophonia (hated of sounds)
- Exposure therapy
- Counter conditioning
- Distress tolerance (distract with accepts)
- cognitive therapy / acceptance

Learn more:
- Misophonia Sufferers: Scientists May Have Found the Root of Your Pain: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/03/he...
- Twenty Thousand Hz: Misophonia: https://www.20k.org/episodes/misophonia
- Misophonia is a newly identified condition for people hypersensitive to sound: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation...
- Misophonia has a very small but contentious community of researchers: http://www.slate.com/articles/health_...
- Misophonia Is A Real, Awful Thing, And You Just Might Have It: https://www.buzzfeed.com/juliegerstei...
- What It’s Like to Be Unable to Bear the Sound of Someone Eating: http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2016/05/...
-   / misophonia  

Research:
- The Brain Basis for Misophonia: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/...
- Commentary: The Brain Basis for Misophonia: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/...
- Potential treatment targets for misophonia: https://www.colorado.edu/clinicalpsyc...
- Toward a theoretical model of misophonia: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2...
- A brief course of cognitive behavioural therapy for the
treatment of misophonia: a case example: https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...
- Counterconditioning Treatment for Misophonia: https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...
- Cognitive behavioral therapy is effective in misophonia: An open trial: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...

Twitter:   / thepsychshow  
Instagram:   / thepsychshow  
Snapchat:   / thepsychshow  
Facebook:   / thepsychshow  
YouTube:    / thepsychshow  

Follow Dr. Ali Mattu:   / alimattu  

THE PSYCH SHOW! Weekly adventures in psychology, the brain, and behavioral sciences with Dr. Ali Mattu!