Re: Question For the Doctors/Moedrators/Audiologists

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Welcome ,I'll put in my 2 cents. Exposure therapy, desensitization or whatever you want to call it does not work when it comes to Misophonia!If anyone here has a different opinion, please chime in.Mike To:

Soundsensitivity Sent: Saturday, May 12, 2012 1:54 PM Subject: Question For the Doctors/Moedrators/Audiologists

My name is , and I am fairly new to this group. My counselor was the one who mentioned to me that one of her other clients told her about misophonia, and from there I began researching the condition. When discussing it with her further after my initial research, she stated that it IS treatable, via gradual exposure therapy (or something like that, cannot recall exact terminology). From what I've read on this site ( and elsewhere) that does not seem accurate, but perhaps I have not read enough of the available statistical data. Is misophonia a condition which, with sustained exposure, one can overcome sensitivity to previously abhorrent sounds? I would love nothing more than to not fly into a rage or a panic when I hear someone chewing, singing in public, whistling, and so on. If there is an efficacious therapy, it is certainly something with which I would like to be involved!

Thank you for being here, and for the support and information you provide. It is such a relief, after all these years, to no longer feel like I am a complete freak.

[Guest guest]

What I can offer is that the exposure therapy has NOT been successful for the

vast majority of those with 4S/misophonia. I cannot think of a single case

where it was reported with positive results.

That does not mean it may not be possible, but to date, it has not been shown to

be effective in the slightest degree.

This is where the therapists tapes an hour of the triggers and plays them

gradually or even suddenly to the sufferer, sometimes for hours per week. This

approach IMHO has been used with phobias which are indeed psychological

problems.

4S/Miso has a fundamental neurological basis in my opinion and this may be why

it does not respond positively to this form of 'therapy'.

I am sure there are people here who have had this done, maybe even more than

once, and can speak more clearly than I.

Dr. Marsha , AuD

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> Welcome ,

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> I'll put in my 2 cents. Exposure therapy, desensitization or whatever you want

to call it does not work when it comes to Misophonia!

> If anyone here has a different opinion, please chime in.

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> Mike

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> To: Soundsensitivity

> Sent: Saturday, May 12, 2012 1:54 PM

> Subject: Question For the Doctors/Moedrators/Audiologists

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> My name is , and I am fairly new to this group. My counselor was the

one who mentioned to me that one of her other clients told her about misophonia,

and from there I began researching the condition. When discussing it with her

further after my initial research, she stated that it IS treatable, via gradual

exposure therapy (or something like that, cannot recall exact terminology). From

what I've read on this site ( and elsewhere) that does not seem accurate, but

perhaps I have not read enough of the available statistical data. Is misophonia

a condition which, with sustained exposure, one can overcome sensitivity to

previously abhorrent sounds? I would love nothing more than to not fly into a

rage or a panic when I hear someone chewing, singing in public, whistling, and

so on. If there is an efficacious therapy, it is certainly something with which

I would like to be involved!

> Thank you for being here, and for the support and information you provide. It

is such a relief, after all these years, to no longer feel like I am a complete

freak.

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[Guest guest]

Mike, Dr. , thank you so much for taking the time to reply! Admittedly, I

was concerned when my therapist mentioned the idea of exposure therapy, because

my initial understanding was that this was a hard-wired, not a psychological,

issue. Plus, the idea of having to sit and listen to the sounds that trigger me

makes me want to smash something.

It's comforting to know that not being able to overcome this issue has not been

MY personal failure, but rather something I need to learn how to live, well, not

" with, " but perhaps " around. "

Thanks again!

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> > Welcome ,

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> > I'll put in my 2 cents. Exposure therapy, desensitization or whatever you

want to call it does not work when it comes to Misophonia!

> > If anyone here has a different opinion, please chime in.

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> > Mike

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> > To: Soundsensitivity

> > Sent: Saturday, May 12, 2012 1:54 PM

> > Subject: Question For the Doctors/Moedrators/Audiologists

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> > My name is , and I am fairly new to this group. My counselor was the

one who mentioned to me that one of her other clients told her about misophonia,

and from there I began researching the condition. When discussing it with her

further after my initial research, she stated that it IS treatable, via gradual

exposure therapy (or something like that, cannot recall exact terminology). From

what I've read on this site ( and elsewhere) that does not seem accurate, but

perhaps I have not read enough of the available statistical data. Is misophonia

a condition which, with sustained exposure, one can overcome sensitivity to

previously abhorrent sounds? I would love nothing more than to not fly into a

rage or a panic when I hear someone chewing, singing in public, whistling, and

so on. If there is an efficacious therapy, it is certainly something with which

I would like to be involved!

> > Thank you for being here, and for the support and information you provide.

It is such a relief, after all these years, to no longer feel like I am a

complete freak.

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