Imagine walking around your home or apartment getting ready for work. Your child was just in the bathroom washing their hands and they didn’t filly turn the faucet off. The quiet drip of the faucet in the background echoes through each and every room in your home. It grows increasingly more aggravating the longer you hear it. You go to turn the faucet off and flip the light switch in the bathroom so you can see. The hum of the iridescent light buzzes in your ears and causes you a headache. You finally turn the light out, but then notice your partner eating their breakfast in the morning, chewing their food. All of these noises have caused you anxiety and panic, rather than just being a simple annoyance.
This is the life of someone who deals with a noise disorder. Otherwise known as misophonia, the slight sounds of everyday life can cause great disturbances in people who suffer from this rare syndrome. There is much to learn about noise disorders like misophonia, and your comprehension of these conditions are imperative to understanding how people with them live their life.
Symptoms of Noise Disorders
Noise disorders are serious illnesses that can significantly hinder how people go about life every day. Since no two people are exactly alike and identical, various different symptoms can be apparent in different individuals. There are many tell-tale signs that point to noise disorders that help us identify whether or not you may be suffering from this kind of disorder. These most common symptoms can include the development of depression, anxiety, inability to control your emotions when exposed to particular sounds or noises, and potential anger and uncontrollable rage with associated noises or sounds. This is not a comprehensive list of symptoms, as some cases can be more severe than others.
With these symptoms being portrayed in your actions or daily life, along with your vocal experiences and input shared with us, we’re able to determine if you truly suffer from a noise disorder. This will also help us create a treatment plan for you and how to improve your future life. Living with misophonia and noise disorders can be detrimental, so it is important that you seek treatment as soon as you experience potential symptoms.
Treatment Options
Thankful to the increase of medical knowledge and technological advances over time, doctors and management centers like us have been able to identify various forms of treatment that can positively impact people’s lives when dealing with misophonia. Regardless of how severe your symptoms are and what sounds are affecting you, plenty of treatment options are available.
Some of the most common treatment forms include cognitive behavior therapy, wearing earplugs, the use of behind-ear sound projectors, and other various kinds of talk therapy. There is a treatment option available to you no matter what form of misophonia or noise disorder you are dealing with.
Seek Treatment Today
Living with noise disorders can create great pain and torment in life, so it is import that you work to combat these as soon as possible. If you’re unsure of where to begin with your treatment, reach out to us here at the Misophonia Cognitive Center. Steven Katz LCSW can help diagnose your noise disorder and provide you with the exact type of treatment that you need. Contact us to schedule an appointment with us to relieve your negative symptoms as soon as possible! Stop living in pain and come visit us today.
Steven Geller Katz, LCSW
646-598-2251