Re: My family thinks I'm making this up.

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Do you have any suggestion on how I should handle my family? Also, Any methods that seem to help the anxiety?That's absolutely terrible. My family didn't know what was wrong with me either. They thought I was just making excuses for not doing things with them. But once I told them I thought I had a condition when no one else had, they believed me. But maybe you should just show them what Misophonia is on the internet? Did you do that already? As for methods, in previous topics there are some mentioned. You can use earplugs to block the noise, or listen to music to drown out the sounds.

[Guest guest]

I think you should print up information and show them and have a serious discussion with them!Kim

I've had this as far back as I can remember, not realizing what it was. It has recently gotten much worse in the past year. So much worse its forced me to do research and come across Misophonia. I told my family about it and all they said was 'People come up with a disorder for everything'. Last night I was in the car for 2 hours with my parents, aunt, and cousins. With all the lip smacking, gum chewing, breathing, whistling, ect. I was on the verge of tears trying to control my rage and my sense of panic being trapped in there. I tried saying something but they just told me to get over it and stop being a control freak. Last night was the worst it's ever been and I'm afraid that it's just kicked up another notch. It's hard having everyone (friends included) think I'm pretending and treat me like I'm lying.

Do you have any suggestion on how I should handle my family? Also, Any methods that seem to help the anxiety?