Doctor Ali Mattu | What to do when you hate sounds (misophonia treatment) @drali | Uploaded November 2017 | Updated October 2024, 19 hours ago.
How to cope with sounds that make you anxious, angry, or disgusted.

Vanessa Hill's misophonia video: youtu.be/1LFBQ3EP3Pg

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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: nytimes.com/2017/02/03/health/sounds-people-hate.html
- Twenty Thousand Hz: Misophonia: 20k.org/episodes/misophonia
- Misophonia is a newly identified condition for people hypersensitive to sound: washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/misophonia-is-a-newly-identified-condition-for-people-hypersensitive-to-sound/2014/12/01/7c392782-69ba-11e4-a31c-77759fc1eacc_story.html
- Misophonia has a very small but contentious community of researchers: slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_examiner/2015/08/misophonia_research_disorder_of_irritation_by_chewing_lip_smacking_sniffing.html
- Misophonia Is A Real, Awful Thing, And You Just Might Have It: buzzfeed.com/juliegerstein/misophonia-is-a-real-awful-thing-and-you-definitely-have-it?utm_term=.huRWaPrWV#.cezwZ0Own
- What It’s Like to Be Unable to Bear the Sound of Someone Eating: nymag.com/scienceofus/2016/05/what-it-s-like-to-be-unable-to-bear-the-sound-of-someone-eating.html
- reddit.com/r/misophonia

Research:
- The Brain Basis for Misophonia: sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982216315305
- Commentary: The Brain Basis for Misophonia: frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnbeh.2017.00111/full
- Potential treatment targets for misophonia: https://www.colorado.edu/clinicalpsychology/sites/default/files/attached-files/letter_to_the_editor-_potential_treatment_targets_for_misophonia_schneider_arch_2015_copy.pdf
- Toward a theoretical model of misophonia: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25886954
- A brief course of cognitive behavioural therapy for the
treatment of misophonia: a case example: researchgate.net/publication/257366235_A_brief_course_of_cognitive_behavioural_therapy_for_the_treatment_of_misophonia_A_case_example
- Counterconditioning Treatment for Misophonia: researchgate.net/publication/257366235_A_brief_course_of_cognitive_behavioural_therapy_for_the_treatment_of_misophonia_A_case_example
- Cognitive behavioral therapy is effective in misophonia: An open trial: sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0165032716321681

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