Don’t you just hate people eating with their mouths open? Do you get annoyed with someone chewing loudly, somehow those chewing and slurping noises can actually get on your nerves. But!! Consider this fact; is the next person sitting next to you bothered by the same activity? Maybe not because a negative reaction to chewing noises may be the result of a psychiatric condition called Misophonia. That’s what you may be having.
As weird as it may sound, Misophonia is the condition of being annoyed at chewing noises or slurping. But honestly, Misophonia or not, eating with ones mouth wide open and chewing loudly like a cow masticating is downright rude and bad manners.
Those suffering from Misophonia get annoyed with someone chewing or doing just about anything related to eating loudly. It could be drinking, eating loud, slurping, sniffing food and even loud breathing. Well that may sound a bit extreme, so you can well imagine the person with such a disorder being angry for someone breathing.
Misophonia isn’t associated with all sounds of activity from a body. It is certain sounds that trigger a rage. Next time you breathe loudly in front of someone and you see him visibly agitated, let him know he has Misophonia. Those suffering from Misophonia don’t really have much control on their surroundings; as a result it can cause a huge anxiety attack in the persons suffering from it. Those with such a condition find it difficult to work in social environments like schools and colleges. It can even make a job intolerable.
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The weird fact about Misophonia is that the sufferer tends to mimic the very same sound they despise. Surprisingly according to the psychology of the condition, this can have a calming effect. That’s some information for you in case you hate chewing sounds. Mimicry is said to invoke a feeling of compassion and sympathy which lessens the response to the trigger setting of the adverse reaction.
There is a list of triggers that tend to cause an adverse reaction to those suffering from Misophonia. Activities like chewing, breathing, grunting, teeth grinding, yawning, sniffling and snorting are all sounds that a person suffering from such a condition hates hearing.
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Moreover, environmental sounds and those of a person’s surrounding can also trigger of the reaction such as clinging of pots and pans, scraping utensils, paper ripping or being crumbled, pen clicks, change rattling in pockets and even cell phone ringing. Basically the condition makes a sufferer adverse to most kinds of sounds. Misophonia requires a victim to learn how to cope with the sounds of is environment.
A victim rarely shares the plight of the condition with others. If you get annoyed with someone chewing, the best thing to do is move away. It takes support and understanding to come to terms with the condition which in time will not make much of a difference.
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