Misophonia Testimonials

"Misophonia"

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“This was mind-blowing. I sat mesmerized and with tentative disbelief watched, and listened, to her munching through the whole bag. I simply can’t express how in-awe I was of how this felt. I can’t stress how stunned I am by my new ‘normal’ state.

A year on it has significantly changed my life, improved all my relationships, made me a much more easy-going, pleasant person to be around; this is a great example of how it’s possible (and easy) to change something that's been ‘my normal’ for as long as I could remember.”

Paul C (2020)

"Misophonia – Full testimonial"

You’ve probably never heard of Misophonia (and neither had I until fairly recently when it was officially recognized and classified) but, along with my dad and sisters, I suffered from it for 50+ years of my life. Misophonia is a condition whereby certain sounds provoke a strong, negative, emotional reaction. These ‘trigger’ sounds are often related to the mouth, such as eating, slurping, chewing, talking while eating and so on, but can also be rustling a crisp bag, unwrapping a sweet, stirring a cup of tea, and many other sounds that most (normal) people wouldn’t even notice. The reactions to the sounds typically include anger and violent impulses (towards the perpetrator), panic, an urgent need to leave the room, or if you can’t leave, some tenuous coping mechanism. As you can imagine, this could be very socially disruptive, and definitely not conducive to happy family mealtimes!

However, like so many things in life that we've never known to be any different - like our thoughts, beliefs, home-lives, habits, etc - we accept them as our normal, and so I naturally learned to navigate through life simply trying to avoid punching anyone who happened to be eating near me. That is until I met Di and 'Supporting Change’. Di, and Nicky, have helped me in so many ways but one of the most stark and instantly noticeable changes occurred after my 3rd or 4th session. I hadn’t gone to work on the Misophonia issue at all by the way, after all I’d had 50 years of learning to live with it - it was simply “how I was” - but during that session some, presumably underlying factor, shifted.

To cut a long story short, a couple of days after the energy-release I was on a plane to the US. Planes can be especially stressful environments (close proximity of many people who seemingly want to noisily eat the crunchiest of foods for the entire flight, plus there’s no escape), and the woman next to me reached into her bag and pulled out a family-size bag of crisps. I instinctively scrambled for my noise-cancelling headphones so I could drown out the sounds with loud music, but my neighbour beat me to it. Before I could even unzip the case she’d indulged herself with a handful of thick-cut salt n vinegar. Initially I panicked because I was afraid of my reaction (never an ideal situation on a plane) but to my absolute amazement it didn’t bother me in the slightest. This was mind-blowing. I sat mesmerized and with tentative disbelief watched, and listened, to her munching through the whole bag. Then, in what felt like an emphatic encore, she pulled out a crispy granny smith and crunched and slurped her way through that, and again no adverse reaction in me at all. I simply can’t express how in-awe I was of how this felt.

I can’t stress how stunned I am by my new ‘normal’ state. A year on it has significantly changed my life, improved all my relationships, made me a much more easy-going, pleasant person to be around; and all from a few sessions with Di. As I said, I’ve experienced many other developments since working with ’Supporting Change', but this one is a great example of how it’s possible (and easy) to change something that's been ‘my normal’ for as long as I could remember. (Paul C. 2020)