Misophonia Experiment

Misophonia is known as a brain disorder, this brain disorder is known as the “hatred of sound:” what it means to have this means that you are sensitive to certain sounds, such as people chewing with their mouths open, people breathing to loudly and the list goes on and on. One of my biggest pet peeves that I am trying to modify is when people are chewing with their mouths open. I try my best at ignoring it, but instead of ignoring it I jump to getting angry very fast. You can only change yourself on the way that you react, you cannot change the way people do things. By modifying your behavior will help you adapt to things that are around you, this experiment is to do something similar. In this experiment you will be applying a positive and
With misophonia, specific auditory or visual stimuli trigger a response of irritation or disgust, which immediately escalates to anger (Schröder et al., 2013). Auditory triggers can be almost any repeating sound, but those commonly reported are eating sounds (e.g. lip smacking, chewing), nasal sounds (e.g. sniffing, breathing, snoring), and repetitive sounds (e.g. typing, pen clicking; Edelstein et al., 2013; Jastreboff & Jastreboff, 2014; Schröder et al., 2013; Wu et al., 2014). Visual trigger stimuli of repetitive movements (e.g. hair twirling, leg shaking) and movements associated with auditory triggers (e.g. jaw movement) are also
If finding out if this behavior modification will work then I’m willing to countuie it if it works. If not I will try other behavior modifications. In the article Treating the Initial Physical Reflex of Misophonia With the Neural Repatterning Technique: A Counterconditioning Procedure by Thomas H. Dozier stated “. The impact on the individual can vary from mild to debilitating and can cause severe problems in family, social, and professional life…. Although this seems to be a discrepancy, the anxiety of misophonic individuals could have been associated with avoidance behaviors, and so referred to as avoidance.” The fear of being around people because they are afraid of hearing these noises so they keep isolated. Which causes issues with relationships, also when people getting angry because they are eating with their mouth open. In which they react with anger, then causes strain on the