So quite a range of emotions, depending on the sensitivity of the connection.Īround 6% to 20% of people are believed to be affected and it often first becomes an issue around the age of 12 – and more commonly in girls. The reaction can be anything from mild disgust and a feeling of anxiety to panic and the urge to flee. “This is the first time such a connection in the brain has been identified for the condition.” Misophonia literally means hatred of sound and, for people with it, the trigger is usually any sounds made by the mouth. “Our findings indicate that for people with misophonia, there is abnormal communication between the auditory and motor brain regions – you could describe it as a supersensitised connection,” said the lead author, Dr Sukhbinder Kumar. Researchers at Newcastle University found sufferers of misophonia have increased connectivity between the brain’s auditory cortex, where we hear sounds, and motor control areas related to the mouth, throat and face, where we chew and use our mouths. I did think his insistence that I chew soundlessly a touch OTT, but I guess I was lucky he wasn’t more upset.īut it turns out that people who have extreme reactions to sounds like that may in fact have a supersensitised brain connection. Haven’t heard if it? Well, if you’ve got misophonia it can trigger intense physical or emotional reactions to hearing chewing and breathing sounds that others might see as dramatic. Despite 95 of people claiming to recycle and most knowing regular chewing gum does not degrade easily, 1 in 6 admitted to disposing of chewing gum on a surface and the same. I hadn’t been aware my chewing was even audible and came to the conclusion he was suffering from misophonia. People in Wales were the most aware, with a third of respondents knowing chewing gum contained plastic, but just 1 in 6 in the North East knew what they were chewing. One night at the theatre, I was chewing as usual when the man sitting on my right asked me to chew less noisily.
It helps me, especially when I’m in a long meeting and might not be able to have a drink.
Because I suffer from a dry mouth, I chew gum to keep it moist.
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