Shortly after her parents’ divorce at 13 years old, any time Lindsey Baatz would hear a person chewing gum or a speaker playing music with heavy bass, she bubbled with rage, disgust and panic. Sixteen ...

If you feel irrationally angry or upset at certain sounds, particularly the noises that result when someone chews with their mouth open, you may have misophonia. Though the hypersensitivity to these ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. According to a new study, about one in five people have misophonia, a condition that causes a negative reaction to harmless ...

I’m a fairly calm person, but one thing that launches me into a fit of rage is the sound of my husband chewing. I can’t say whether his chewing differs in a demonstrable way from other people’s ...

Are there certain sounds that really drive you crazy? Beyond mere frustration or annoyance, sounds that trigger uncontrollable feelings of anger and disgust? If so then you quite possibly suffer from ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A man who suffers from a severe form of misophonia says he hasn't talked to his family in several years because their chewing is ...

NEW YORK - There are certain sounds that really get to some people, like chewing of gum or breathing loudly. These noises may be annoying, but for some folks, it's bigger than that. Sounds such as ...

Back in 1949, someone designated May as Mental Health Awareness Month. As such, I’m going to spend the next four weeks discussing different issues that fall into this category. First up, misophonia — ...

Researchers for the first time have identified the parts of the brain involved in a less-commonly studied trigger of misophonia, a condition associated with an extreme aversion to certain sounds.

Misophonia is a sound sensitivity disorder that causes extreme reactions to specific everyday noises and makes people feel strongly about them. These noises are generally ordinary and not offensive to ...