Shortly after her parents’ divorce at 13 years old, any time Lindsey Baatz would hear a person chewing gum or a speaker playing music with heavy bass, she bubbled with rage, disgust and panic. Sixteen ...
If you feel irrationally angry or upset at certain sounds, particularly the noises that result when someone chews with their mouth open, you may have misophonia. Though the hypersensitivity to these ...
Michelle Obama opened up on her podcast about how her husband’s chewing habits — and the silence of empty-nest life.
Back in 1949, someone designated May as Mental Health Awareness Month. As such, I’m going to spend the next four weeks discussing different issues that fall into this category. First up, misophonia — ...
For some, it's nails on a chalkboard — either the literal kind or the figurative kind. For others, it's people humming. And for scores of us, it's that one most hated sound of all: the sound of ...
The sound of someone chewing has been voted the UK’s most annoying noise. That’s according to a study, which found the second and third most annoying noises were construction work and alarms. (Too ...
Doritos developed an AI to silence chewing sounds on calls, especially gaming sessions. The chip brand worked with developers and hundreds of recordings of people chewing to create Doritos Silent. The ...
A woman claimed her chewing sounds drove a co-worker to leave the office in a viral TikTok video, and viewers are divided on whether to side with her or her co-worker. The video shows @shandizzy13 at ...
"Michelle Obama reveals the one thing about Barack that drives her and their daughters crazy as empty nesters. Find out what ...
Researchers for the first time have identified the parts of the brain involved in a less-commonly studied trigger of misophonia, a condition associated with an extreme aversion to certain sounds.