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The word 'misophonia' describes a condition that statistically, 20 per cent of you have: an extreme reaction to certain sounds. "For me, it was a relief to have a word for what I'd been experiencing," says Dr Jane Gregory, author of the new book Sounds Like Misophonia: How to Stop Small Noises from Causing Extreme Reactions, "because I thought for a long time that I was really uptight or maybe a bit controlling over other people, and that that was a problem with my character, as opposed to it actually being a problem with the way that my brain processes sounds." Jane offers advice for handling misophonia, including some very simple verbal techniques.
Jane also appeared in Behave, explaining how cognitive behavioural therapy works, and A Novel Remedy, talking about how reading novels can aid mental health, AND Keep Calm And to justify my feelings of annoyance when being instructed to keep calm, AND Bonus 2018 to discuss how Charlotte’s Web can help with arachnophobia.
Related Otherlusionists that you might like to check out include Coward, about anxiety, C-PTSD about complex PTSD, and Mind My Mind about colloquial use of mental health terms.
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YOUR RANDOMLY SELECTED WORD FROM THE DICTIONARY:
obelize, also -ise, verb: mark (a spurious or doubtful word or passage) with an obelus.
Origin 17th century: from Greek obelizein, in the same sense.
obelus, noun, plural obeli:
1. a symbol † used as a reference mark in printed matter, or to indicate that a person is deceased.
2 a mark (- or ÷) used in ancient manuscripts to mark a word or passage as spurious or doubtful.
Origin: Middle English via Latin from Greek obelos 'pointed pillar', also 'critical mark'.
CREDITS:
Dr Jane Gregory is a clinical psychologist researching misophonia, and the author of the new book Sounds Like Misophonia: How to Stop Small Noises from Causing Extreme Reactions. Find her work at SoundsLikeMisophonia.com and buy the book at all good book emporiums!
This episode was produced by me, Helen Zaltzman. The original Allusionist music is by Martin Austwick. Download his songs at palebirdmusic.com and listen to his podcasts Song By Song and Neutrino Watch.
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