misophonia

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so my 10 year old brother has misophonia (when noises like chewing or slurping cause irrational reactions). I read online that people develop misophonia in there early teens,but he has had it since he was 3 years old. He is sensitive about every one but our sister drives him nuts. Like just her sipping water will cause a full blown fit from him. We can't have meals together, or eat in the same room as him.when he was 6 or 7 we got some sound counseling headphones for him but they didn't work. has been listening to his ipod really loud to drown out the noise but my mom worries that he's going to damage his hearing if he continues to do that. We went to some counselors and therapists but they didn't help.
does anyone have any ideas on how we can help him?

I've had misophonia since I was a young child as well. I'm glad that you guys recognized it early-- I went most of my life being yelled at, scolded, and belittled for being "crazy". It was only a few years ago that misophonia became better known, and my mother literally called me crying to apologize. Anywho-- things that help. Really... separating myself from it is the only 100% effective thing, but I understand that that's not always practical. Breathing exercises do help to at least curb the rage/anxiety, though. Also, I've found that if I'm eating at the same time or am otherwise preoccupied (weird example, but if I'm very nervous, like during a business meeting or on a date, I don't notice it nearly as much), it's much better...so I tend to eat very slowly to stretch out my meals so that I'm the last to finish. This doesn't work so well if someone near me has particularly atrocious eating habits (i.e. my brother in law), but for general purposes with my husband and family it works fairly well. Try giving him puzzles to do during mealtimes. Be conscious of your own eating habits-- if anything, to show him that you're trying to make his life a little easier. I know that it seems like he's being a brat, or being irrational, but misophonia is extreme hell that I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy. My husband does everything he can to minimize the stress for me, and I'll be forever grateful for that. Oddly enough-- he jokes that I've "passed" it on to him-- he gets just as annoyed with people eating obnoxiously as I do now

I had never heard of tis before, but after a bit of reading, it fits my dad perfectly. Anyone eating too loud near him, chewing gum, or typing for long periods seems to cause him great pain and rage, to the point that if he cant find an area of a restaraunt thats quiet he wont eat there, even if no other eating options are available.

I had a tremendous fear of noises as a kid - whether real or in my head - especially drums and words beginning with the letter B.

I suppose that could be called misophonia, sensory processing disorder, or just being on the Autism spectrum.

The best thing is just to eat separately.

I eat separately, because I can't stand eating noises either. They prevent me from eating and drive me insane.

Eating noises, breathing noises, and typing noises all drive me crazy. I just eat alone. I also hate being around other people when I eat, even if they're not eating.

My Misophonia can be described like this. Play Megaman X5 up to the point where the Sigma Virus is introduced. There's an indicator on the lower corner of the screen that indicates how much Sigma Virus you collect. If you collect a Sigma Virus, the indicator goes up from green to yellow to red. If the indicator exceeds red, X will start taking damage for every Sigma Virus collected after. If X avoids Sigma Virus for a while, the indicator will go back to green. Every time X collects a Sigma Virus is like me coming into contact with a sound I don't like. If I hear too much detestable sounds, it'll start to take its toll on me. My stress will rise and I'll start to feel like Superman surrounded by Kryptonite as my energy starts draining. If my health were in critical condition, it could kill me. I've had high blood pressure before. Hours of silence or a few minutes of loud rock music calm me down.

The sounds I find irritating are as follows:

Every mouth sound you can possibly make. Some of them mostly with your tongue. Most people don't know that they're doing it. Surprisingly, some of them don't even know what the sound they're making even is.

Fun Fact: Even if I make the sounds myself, it still bothers me (this surprised many people I encountered in the past like they thought it didn't bother me if I did it and I wanted people to stop so I could be the only one. Those people are stupid. My dad always told me to ignore. I keep telling him it's not that simple for me with my anxiety and ADHD making me focus on what is pissing me off rather than on what is most important. He tells me I make those sounds too. I don't (mostly) and I try not to because of the fun fact I stated before.)

Rap Music. I hate it. I hate it. I hate it. If there is one Rap song I hate more than the whole genre, it would be Snoop Dogg's "Drop It Like It's Hot." When I hear that song, I go crazy. I remember when I was in a car ride with my parents and mom put in the CD and the song starting playing and then my temporal lobes were on fire. Mom told me to shut up and deal with it because she wanted to hear the song. That was uncalled for. That was worse than all those times when she belched so hard after drinking and her only excuse was she was trying to mimic the famous belch made by Homer's drinking buddy Barney on The Simpsons.

Country Music. It, too, drains me.

misophonia is a burning internal HELL!
I know whereof I speak.

Can't stand eating noises.
Or the rattle cough of congested lungs or noisy breathing.