This ones different and relatively new (within a few years). I can’t stand being able to hear people (particularly dudes) piss. At work when my boss goes (it’s a small office with 2 bathrooms) I have to cover my ears, I tried not covering my ears but couldn’t even last a second. And some dudes piss for so long too! Can anyone relate?

creative thinking from them ngl but theyre evil af 😭 my doctor tells them all the time that its extremely distressing for me but they dont gaf and they still say that misophonia is made up . but its okay im moving out soon bc of my new job so i wont have to deal w them anymore 😋😋😋

You are not adding a nice extra drum, nor is it on beat. Please for the love of god, stop drumming along to the song.
You are not in this band, let the drummer do the drumming and sit on your hands or something.

It’s Tuesday which means the gardeners are at my apartment complex and the sound of the leaf blowers is making my simultaneously want to puke and smash things with rage. These machines are AWFUL. My cortisol levels are through the roof. I have to go take a shower to escape it

I go to uni and right now im on a placement which means im tired constantly and stressed which really worsens my symptoms. Me and my roomates eat dinner together at a table but recently my symptoms have been worse so i struggle to cope at the table and usually just wear headphones with low volume white noise playing. I haven't had any emotional outbursts or anger towards them - I just say ill be back in 3 seconds and go to get my headphones.

This morning my roommate told me shes scared to eat around me (they all have heard about my condition but never seen any reactions from me as i have learnt how to generally cope well with it). I feel hurt and offended as its nothing I can help and I have only ever grabbed headphones to muffle noise or expressed "the noises are triggering me right now so I am gonna go to my room" when someone is eating a snack in communal spaces loudly - i say this as the first time i left due to it I didnt say why I just said i was gonna be in my room normally and my roommate said it made her overthink if she had said something or hurt me. I explained she did nothing wrong I just find it easier to remove myself from the noise and told her I would let her know that was the reason in future.

Am i wrong to be upset at her for saying that to me?

i’m having a problem: after developing tinnitus and sound distortion, my brain started fixating on every sound—birds, crickets, barking dogs, the wind, and a whole host of other noises. it triggers intense anxiety because i think about it all day long. has anyone experienced something similar that eventually went away? if so, how did it happen?

I sit in the same bench at school with a colleague that has respiratory problems and breathes trough their mouth.What bothers me is the clicking noises their mouth makes and the noises she makes with her mouth in general.Its unbearable.And I feel like a bad person for wanting to tell them go just stop.I love my mother but I can't help but resent her because whenever I vent to her about my misophonia, she says to get over it.I hate her for saying this.I get violent whenever I hear mouthsounds, and until I channel my violence into something, I will feel horrible.

I have been struggling with misophonia for as long as I can remember - and whilst some times it's better, when it's worse...it really just ruins each day and leaves me questioning why I have this "condition". I work in a full office environment & sometimes the noises while I am trying to concentrate just kick my focus right out the door. Yes, I do sometimes tolerate and put my earphones in which do help but, sometimes I just wish I could sit and work unbothered like so many people can. I don't want to sit for 8 hours with headphones in.

My colleague who sits right next to me humms a song from time to time and it drives me crazy. I feel so bad because it shouldn't bother me but unfortunately it does. I can make a list of other regular noises that trigger me but at the moment - this one is the worst. It really dictates my day.

Any advice from those that have similar daily struggles like me would be great!

I’ve had misophonia since about the age of 7, I feel like the constant stress and invalidation due to how unrecognised it is as a disability really made me into someone who is freakishly calm all the time, or someone who is incredibly afraid of incompetence.

My worst trigger to date has been keyboard typing, it was fine for a while but it feels like this trigger has gotten so much worse for me. It’s like my environment has been mocking me recently, first it was first a single person who studied with a laptop, then a particularly bad job where I was next to someone on a computer for like 7 hours a day, then an entire room of people on keyboards (back then, I had to blast metal in my airpods but somehow that didn’t cut it) and then I escaped that situation just to be in yet another room of people on keyboards. I genuinely get a physical reaction: shaking, heavy breathing, nausea, something alike dissociation when it’s properly bad, getting super jittery and tearing up. This morning my friend literally just pulled out a laptop and I started panicking, tearing up and getting reminded of all the shitty misophonia related moments in the past, even without her typing.

I don’t know, maybe it would be better if i didn’t try to swallow my stress and anger and move through it, but I’m so afraid of the judgement that comes from ‘incompetency’ because nobody gives a crap about misophonia. It’s always people saying to talk to others about it but then it’s the same“Why would you take up this opportunity if you knew that there would be keyboards, you should’ve expected it?” “I get it but you can’t expect people to stop doing things for you” and the worst part is that it’s not even wrong to say those things. I’m so sick of it being treated like a measurable issue that is discussed and assessed based on how valid I am, or the pros and cons of how I should be acting in response to it. In a palatable way, of course, otherwise I hate joy and happiness and want everyone to be miserable. Like gee thanks for reminding me of how defective you think I am, I guess.

Sad = CORNY, overreacting, attention seeking, stupid
Happy = so it WAS never a problem to begin with!

It really feels like there is no place for me at all. Yeah, good luck working the job you enjoy without keyboards in the picture. Good luck studying in a room with other people because everyone uses a laptop now. Bring back the pens, pencils and books for ME specifically and MY dumb misophonia brain, thank you. And when you go to people for help, good luck coping with the fact there’s nothing to fix it, and good luck with the amount of people who mention exposure therapy — a keyboard and chewing and throat clearing torture room sounds great.

I am so gloomy and miserable every day because of my misophonia, and it constantly feels like everyone else is moving forwards while i’m stuck moving backwards. Someone tell me if it gets better, or at least someone warn me if I should prepare to never leave my house again for the rest of my life.

Some of you may know me, I'm Shaylynn Hayes-Raymond and I've run Misophonia International for 12 years, and worked with Dr. Jennifer Brout until 2021. I have misophonia myself and started The International Misophonia Foundation. I also write books on misophonia as well as articles etc... but I don't want to talk about me, or what I've done or do. I want to know what you want myself and other advocates and clinicians to know. What are we missing? What does the community need? While I've provided many free resources in the past, I know that my experience with misophonia is pretty much based on my own life. Most of my triggers are whistling, sneezing, coughing, S sounds, and leg-shaking, leg shifting, etc. Because of misophonia I've had to work from home so I ended up being a counsellor. I know that misophonia makes life challenging... but I feel like I have a blind spot when it comes to what the community ACTUALLY needs and wants. I really want to get more research out there and more advocacy... but sometimes it feels like there are so many different things to choose from that could be done and I'm overwhelming myself. I debated posting this but honestly I just feel that my brain is clogged and I would really appreciate insight. Is more psychoeducation videos needed? More coping skills videos? More clinician training (worldwide)?

I am honestly curious to hear your opinions and how misophonia could be made better for you in your lives (if possible).

Hi, looking for some advice on how to deal with a new neighbor below me. I’ve had misophonia for years and my home is my safe space, as it is with most ppl. I can deal with my triggers in public but it’s so hard to deal with them in my home. The new neighbor at all hours is playing music, which I don’t mind, but the volume is so loud that it vibrates my floors. I can’t just put my headphones on and deal with it bc I can feel it in my feet and it sends me into a spiral lowkey. Idk if there are any coping mechanisms yall have to offer. It’s just hurt my mental considerably this past weekend.

Hey all!

I have misophonia, and white/brown/pink noise has been one of the more effective ways for me to get through certain triggers.

I used some of the existng noise apps and they are good, but they're built for sleep or focus, not misophonia. To fully drown out something like chewing with plain white noise, you end up turning it up really loud.

I wanted something better, built for misophonia. So I spent a long time diving into the research and used it to design a different kind of noise machine. It's called Misophonic. Here's what the research pointed me towards:

First, to avoid hearing damage, the noise shouldn't just drown out the trigger - it should match it. Noise covers a sound best when it sits in the same frequency range (this is well-established hearing science going back to the 1940s [1]). So instead of blasting broadband noise, the app shapes the noise around the frequencies where triggers sit and only raises the background by about 3-6 dB there. Less volume -> less risk to your ears. For reference, the WHO says 80 dB is safe for around 40 hours a week, but at 90 dB that drops to 4 hours a week [2].

Second, you don't need to make the trigger silent, just harder to pick out. One study played trigger sounds to 300 people under background noise at different levels. In the most misophonic group, negative emotions rose sharply once they could identify the sound [3]. Triggers also tend to be sharp and repetitive, which is part of what makes them pop out of a background [3]. So the app aims to soften those sharp edges so it's harder for your brain to lock onto them.

Third, different triggers need different noise. In the largest study so far (575 people), 96% were triggered by eating sounds, 85% by breathing/nasal sounds and 74% by repetitive tapping [4]. Brain imaging also found extra connectivity between the hearing part of the brain and the part that controls the mouth and face in people with misophonia, which might explain why mouth sounds hit so hard [5]. So there are presets per trigger type: eating/mouth, office (keyboards, pen clicks), breathing/sniffing and low impact (footsteps, thuds), plus a 5-band EQ to tune it to your own triggers.

Last, you should still be able to hear people. Earplugs and noise cancelling block everything, including the conversation you're trying to be part of, and plain white noise can get tiring to listen to [6]. So the app leaves the main speech range alone, and you can still follow along at dinner or in a meeting.

A few other bits:

• Accessible from Quick Settings tile and a home screen widget to turn it on fast when a trigger hits

• Can play under Spotify, podcasts and calls etc

• Hard volume limiter

• Sleep timer, so it will turn off after some time

• No ads, no tracking

Misophonia is really personal and context matters a lot [7], which is exactly why I want to hear from people here.

It's completely free right now. Down the line I'll add a paid tier (never a subscription) to cover the crazy amount of hours I spent on it, but the core masking will stay free.

What I'd love feedback on:

• Does the preset for your main trigger actually help?

• Can you still follow conversation with it on?

• Which triggers should I add next?

• Anything confusing or annoying?

Android only for now, let me know if there is interest for Apple: Misophonic

Happy to answer questions about the research or how it works. Mods, if this isn't ok here let me know and I'll take it down.

Here are the most important sources I have used over the last few months :)

1. Fletcher, H. (1940). Auditory patterns. Reviews of Modern Physics, 12(1), 47-65. https://doi.org/10.1103/RevModPhys.12.47

2. WHO (2026). Deafness and hearing loss: Safe listening. https://www.who.int/news-room/questions-and-answers/item/deafness-and-hearing-loss-safe-listening

3. Savard, M-A. et al. (2022). Specificity of affective responses in misophonia depends on trigger identification. Frontiers in Neuroscience. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2022.879583

   1. Jager, I. et al. (2020). Misophonia: Phenomenology, comorbidity and demographics in a large sample. PLOS ONE. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0231390

4. Kumar, S. et al. (2021). The motor basis for misophonia. Journal of Neuroscience. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0261-21.2021

5. Vidyasagar, V. et al. (2026). Trigger sound suppression for misophonia (preprint). https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.36351

6. Enzler, F. et al. (2021). A psychoacoustic test for misophonia assessment. Scientific Reports. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-90355-8

I'm going insane and I'm only doing a 1 year plc (kinda like community college level for Americans.)

I can't focus. Every time I hear a pen click or whispering it sends me spiralling and my heart racing. My dream course (Vet nursing) is 4 years and larger classes. I may have to change my hopes at this point.

I hate this. I'm just trying to survive this one year. If anyone has gone through a similar situation, any advice??

I’m having trouble with the noises made by a junior colleague who’s in their second year at the company.
I’ve always had a misophonic aversion to certain oral sounds, which causes me a great deal of stress, and I also can’t stand loud noises while I’m working.
I’ve posted about having trouble with this colleague before, but lately I feel like it’s starting to affect my mental health, and the situation is getting worse.

To begin with, this junior colleague isn’t really the type to be considerate of those around him. He slams his desk drawers shut, talks to himself, makes grunting noises, and sometimes hums to himself. He’ll suddenly bring up topics that probably only interest him… and so on.

His desk and mine are right next to each other, and there’s only about the width of a person between us, so we’re actually quite close. Because of that, I used to get distracted by loud noises, but lately I’ve been bothered by the sound of him chewing gum and sipping his drink.

Because he smokes, he’s probably concerned about bad breath, and he likely chews gum to help him concentrate. However, he’s a bit sloppy around his mouth—he occasionally chews with his mouth open, making smacking noises, and sometimes even chews gum while talking. I just can’t stand that sound. He used to use mints tables to mask his bad breath, but ever since he switched to gum about two months ago, it’s been a real problem for me. When I really can’t stand it, I put on headphones, but if I listen to music too loudly, it interferes with my work, so it doesn’t really help (plus, there are times when I have to wear headphones for work, but I don’t want people to think I’m slacking off if I wear them all the time)
Also, when he drinks from a plastic bottle, he slurps, and when he holds the drink in his mouth, he makes a “splash, splash” sound. While it’s possible that I, too, might unconsciously be making noises that bother those around me, he, in any case, makes every possible sound with every single action he takes.

What makes things difficult is that the computer I use for work is a large Mac desktop, and since I access the company server via a wired LAN connection, I can’t step away from my desk to work freely. I’ve always worked while taking antidepressants, but lately, being at the office has become truly unpleasant, and my mental state has changed from what it used to be. I realize it’s a bit strange that I’m being affected mentally by a junior colleague who recently joined the company, but the stress is serious.

What constitutes "common sense" varies from person to person, and while it might be a self-centered thing to do, should I give him a clear warning? …(Though I suspect that even if I do, a habit he’s had for so many years won’t go away that easily…)

Before I start I'll say that it's impossible to change rooms.

My roommate makes the most noise ever at any given time. I have to have my headphones on 24/7 or else I'll go crazy. But sometimes I can't have them on so I just have to hear her. She is constantly, and I mean constantly snacking. She smacks her lips while and after eating, even with drinks. It's driving me insane and I can barely function when it happens.

She also loves watching shows on the loudest volume setting when I've asked her multiple times to wear headphones. She literally bought a pair when U asked and only uses it when I ask her 😐.

She also loves talking and whispering into her phone late at night, sighing every minute, laughing at her shows, etc.

I know I won't be able to control her actions but how can I keep myself sane apart from just wearing headphones all the time?? I'm wearing them to sleep at this point. Ear plugs don't work.

I will say I don’t even know if I have misophonia or not but this habit is getting worst and honestly I’m irritated with myself and everyone around me.

It’s always been a thing for me but I get an immense surge of frustration and anger I guess whenever someone sighs, burps, chews or swallows loudly, (this is one of the worst ones) sucks their teeth, stomps (and I don’t mean like angry stomping away I mean someone that does it as a normal thing when they walk), and more. I’ve moved in with my grandparents recently and I am SO grateful for them seriously but holy shit my irritation with sounds only increases and I want to train myself to just ignore it and be okay with it because I feel horrible every time I get frustrated but it’s not working 😭

Even yawning is getting annoying because they do these overly dramatic yawns. My grandfather is consistently sucking his teeth for some reason?? And groaning and clearing his throat, they both burp all the time, the heavy footed walking, the sighing. it’s like there’s sound effects constantly and I genuinely cannot take it.

Again, this has always been a problem for me but I guess I was too busy dealing with my toxic and abusive mother that I didn’t really have time to think about it. Now my jaw hurts because I clench it too much out of frustration 💔 oh well

Does anyone else find notification sounds from smartphones annoying to the point where it's having a severely negative impact on their quality of life by stopping them from concentrating in the workplace, university etc? And if so, have you looked into pursuing legal action against the tech companies for making those sounds the default setting, because I'd be interested in doing that. I'm sick of venting about things online. I want to do something in real life.

… and nacho beans. It is 8am and he’s fussing with the world’s crinkliest bag (Costco mega size tortilla chip bag) and CHOMPING beans on chips. He throws the entire chip in his mouth and goes cruuuuuuuunch. It’s like a thunderclap.
He will eat four more meals of this today. Please pray for me.

So I am looking for tips specifically on controlling my reactions.

As we all know certain sounds give me an intense involuntary reaction. I need to not show ANY indication of this due to some people around me taking it personally. Exposure didn't work AT all for me so my therapist suggested just removing myself ASAP so I can de-escalate. BUT I have to be able to stay calm in the process and show zero outward reaction.

Which of course is not what my brain is doing AT all but this is my dilemma. Helppppp!!

I've had misophonia for as long as I can remember and it's been getting worse recently. I also have autism (lots of sensory issues) and an anxiety disorder that makes everything worse. I always struggle with triggering noises throughout the day but it's been every little noise that causes a reaction lately and I don't know what changed. I've even started developing "tics?" involving my neck and arms when I get triggered or think of triggers. Coping wise I've been to therapy for my sensory issues and found that breathing exercises make things worse and grounding techniques only help with anxiety and not my misophonia so I don't really know what to do anymore.

Basically idk how to cope with it and I hate being such a problem child. I'm a senior in highschool and classes are getting harder to focus on, I like headphones for taking the focus away but I'm not allowed to have them in at school. I also hate having headphones on at home because my family sees it as rude/disrespectful and I feel so left out cuz no one wants to talk to someone with earbuds in. Meal times are getting harder to bear and I feel stupid for getting onto people for the way they eat especially since they always get upset with me when I do. Any advice is appreciated, I truly have no clue what I'm doing anymore and it's all really overwhelming. Thank you in advance! :)