Misophonia
What is Misophonia? and what can be done about it?
Misophonia is also known as selective sound sensitivity syndrome and is a real loathing or hatred of sound, not all sound but specific noises. Oral noise is a fairly common trigger and is especially prevalent with breathing, eating, yawning and chewing. Sufferers will have their own specific symptoms and triggers and may have a collection of sounds which is known as their trigger set.
When a person is exposed to one of their trigger set, a negative emotional response is immediately created, which can range in intensity from moderate discomfort to real annoyance at one end of the scale to full on rage and panic at the other end. The fight or flight response can also activate causing offensive or defensive reactions with a high state of agitation and anxiety.
People with misophonia can often find personal relationships stressful and difficult as people close to them can often trigger the worst responses. Similarly sufferers can become socially isolated where an environment has known trigger sounds and they avoid people and places in an attempt to prevent experiencing their physical symptoms. The work place can be another difficult area in which there is usually no control over the trigger sound, this can result in distraction or could lead to a full blown panic attack which then becomes a challenge for the individual to do their job and indeed keep their job. The school environment can also be a challenge where long term anxiety can impact on the ability to learn and socialise.
It is not unusual for people with misophonia to keep the problem to themselves as sometimes others may taunt them with exaggerated offending noises, whilst others may try to lessen the issue with phrases such as “don’t let it get to you”, “just ignore it” or “don’t rise to it” and of course if sufferers could ignore it they obviously would.
BWRT - A dedicated therapy protocol.
We use a dedicated BWRT® protocol specifically designed to work with the different aspects of misophonia which can help by re-training the brain to learn a different response to the current one.
BrainWorking Recursive Therapy (BWRT) is Solution Focused Behavioural Psychotherapy available online by Doxy/Skype/FaceTime/Zoom.
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Keith Tunstall
Professional Therapist & Coach
Keith Tunstall
MIBWRT(Acc.) DHP MAPHP(Acc.)
Keith ran his own successful business for over 20 years and has a great deal of life experience. In 2000 he trained at the Essex Institute of Clinical Hypnosis under the tutelage of Terence Watts MCGI and received a Diploma with Honours in Clinical Hypnotherapy in 2001.
Since learning BWRT in 2015 he now specialises in this therapy because of its efficacy, speed and efficiency, providing a truly solution focussed answer for anxiety and other mind related matters.
He has been been in the world of therapy for over 25 years helping people achieve their goals.
Keith runs his busy therapy practice in Dunstable, Bedfordshire, offering online therapy throughout the UK and worldwide via Doxy, Zoom, Facetime, Skype and WhatsApp.
Book your Free Online Initial Consultation with Keith at BWRT UK today and find out how BWRT® can help you!
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