184. Misophonia
The Allusionist
Helen Zaltzman
4.7 • 3.8K Ratings
🗓️ 6 November 2023
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
The word 'misophonia' describes a condition that statistically, 20 per cent of you have: an extreme reaction to certain sounds. "For me, it was a relief to have a word for what I'd been experiencing," says Dr Jane Gregory, author of the new book Sounds Like Misophonia: How to Stop Small Noises from Causing Extreme Reactions, "because I thought for a long time that I was really uptight or maybe a bit controlling over other people, and that that was a problem with my character, as opposed to it actually being a problem with the way that my brain processes sounds." Jane offers advice for handling with misophonia, including some very simple verbal techniques.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the illusionist, in which I, Helen Zeltzman, throw shots of language down the |
| 0:08.4 | ice luge I lovingly hand-called. |
| 0:11.0 | Now, you heard her in the Behave talking about how cognitive behavioral therapy works. |
| 0:16.4 | You heard her in the novel remedy episode talking about why she sometimes prescribes |
| 0:21.1 | novels to aid the mental health and in this episode |
| 0:24.4 | Jane Gregory is back to talk about a condition that statistically 20% of you have |
| 0:30.3 | so I hope this is a useful episode for you. On with the show. I first heard the term misophonia when I was reading an article in the New York Times. |
| 0:46.0 | I'd say at least five people sent me that article to say, hey this sounds like you. |
| 0:52.0 | Huh. |
| 0:53.0 | Read the word misophonia, read the description, |
| 0:55.0 | and just thought, oh, right, okay, |
| 0:57.0 | yep, that's me, that's exactly what I've experienced my entire life. |
| 1:01.0 | How did it feel to have a word for what you've been experiencing? |
| 1:05.9 | For me it was a relief to have a word for what I've been experiencing. |
| 1:12.2 | It was nice to have an alternative theory for what I was experiencing because I thought for a long time that I was really appetite or maybe controlling over other people and that that was a problem with my character as opposed to it actually being a problem with the way that my brain processes sounds. |
| 1:32.7 | So it was nice to have an alternative explanation for that. |
| 1:36.4 | Do I say doctor or just Jane? |
| 1:41.6 | I don't know. Yeah, if you both I'm gonna go with Jane I'm |
| 1:46.2 | Jane Gregory I'm a clinical psychologist researching misophonia and I'm the |
| 1:50.5 | author of the book sounds like Like Misophonia, how to stop small noises from causing extreme |
| 1:56.5 | reactions. |
| 1:57.5 | Tell us where the term Misophonia came from. |
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