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What helps with mental agitation of misophonia?
12-year-old granddaughter has had symptoms of Misophonia for about 18 months. It has recently gotten much worse. She has self-hate and is rejecting her family. She is beligerent and self-destructive, and has had to be hospitalized. This is believed to be a limbic nervous system abnormality. What treatments are available to treat the mental agitation and aggression?
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This is a full family process! Must be addressed that way to be successful.
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1 ReactionGood Morning, I wanted to see if you had gotten a chance to look at you tube for misophonia 3L Parenting information to start the long slow process of getting your granddaughter some help? Tom Dozier is working with our family and step by step we are getting behaviors improved and see that it can be better. The most important thing is learning about misophonia all over the USA because very few medical providers have heard about this life impacting disability much less know how to treat it so we are forced to do zoom with the top researchers of misophonia In California and Connecticut to get help. Although there is no medication or cure there are coping skills and things like pink, blue, brown, white noise machines that help. Box fans are great for the aggressive hot panic they experience.
Dr Bauman also has a head set he can make specific to each person that helps. We are working to get ours as soon as we can go to Connecticut for our three days of appointments.
I hope some of this helps your family.
Were you able to look up the trigger tamer app and call the number for help with your triggers? This provider is able to give you help that has given adults about 80% success in desensitizing there triggers.
He has been amazing in providing training to local providers to bring awareness to this life altering disability.
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1 ReactionHello Sugarbearmommy,
I would love all the information you can or are willing to share with me.
Thank you!
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1 ReactionMy 41 year old daughter has this and the rage it triggers only add to her angry outlook to life in general. She is unmarried, has no children and is estranged from all members of our family but me. Our relationship hinges on my ability to tolerate her verbal abuse. I’m 65 and in poor health. What is going to happen to her when I die? SEEK HELP FOR YOUR CHILD NOW!! I let this get lost in the mix while trying to treat her other issues. Now I wonder if this could have been the issue all along.
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1 ReactionHonestly it sounds like she needs a Valium prescription. When I was her age I was already sick and it helped
I am so sorry to hear that your granddaughter has misophonia. I see that you posted in July 2023. I hope you have been able to find her the help she needs. She is very lucky that you take her seriously. Many people dismiss the symptoms, especially in children and teens. I am 75 and had no idea what misophonia was until our neighbor got a rooster recently. Roosters are annoying but my reaction was over the top. I went into prolonged fight or flight response and felt an overwhelming rage. I had only had two similarly serious incidents in my life. They were at rock concerts with huge amplifiers and high pitched sounds. I didn’t understand my response and never went to another rock concert. I know now that loud, high-pitched sounds are my trigger and that I have subconsciously arranged my life to avoid these conditions. Not easy to do and something I never admitted to myself or others. It took the constant crowing of that rooster and my frightening response to try to find what was happening to me. It sounds like you are providing your her with coping strategies and saving her from a life of avoidance behaviors and confusing reactions to specific auditory triggers. You have given her a great gift.