When my gorgeous girl cat of 18 years died, I grieved more than for my father.

And still most people who have never experienced it think that it's just "being sad". Nope. I wish I would have felt anything like being sad when I was clinically depressed... at least it would have been something else than this emptiness... I was more brokkoli than human.

When I first met my wife I was seriously alarmed at the pain she went through every month. Never realised it could be so crippling. I almost called an ambulance on one occasion.

This is sometimes referred to as "ADHD paralysis" which may not be a perfect term but is easier for neurotypicals to understand.

Yeah, one of the worst part of depression is that you don't even feel love for your most loved ones anymore. You know you love them, but you don't feel anything but emptiness.

Oh eww, I know that feeling. Or you stand up and it happens, it’s so ick 😣

And it can be loud to you while no one else hears it. I don't want to be triggered by lip-smacking and it is certainly far beyond a little annoyance. Not something I can 'just ignore.'

I have hypersensitivity to light, sound and touch. I doesn't make me angry, but it can make me irritable, even cause panic attacks.

As someone autistic, I understand you.

This! Leaving the room because you can't stand your SO's chewing or swallowing noises and feeling disgusted by the person you love... it's hard.

I hate the sound of scrubbing and someone scratching the fork over a plate while eating.

I have tinnitus and when it's particularly bad, it's physically painful. It sucks to listen to, sure, but it's difficult to explain that it actually hurts - or least, difficult to get people to believe it. (Not sure why because when it's really bad it sounds like an emergency siren inside my ear and those can be painful to listen to when they pass close by).

THISSS!!!!!

This is why I thrive at working from home. Muted (and not so muted) background noise. Malls are painful, so I avoid it. Supermarket trips on bad days has me snarling and don't get me started on the overwhelming need to kick the producer of any tv show or movie, who thinks we NEED the microphone turned up so loud when couples are kissing - I literally have to mute, or fast forward, to get past the suction, slurping, squelching noises from it.

When I was in school I remember sitting next to a friend who was chewing so loudly that I began to cut myself with my nails in order to avoid cutting him or hurting him in any way. When he asked me what was wrong and I explained, he called me an animal and said that Misophonia wasn't an actual thing...

As my husband has gotten older, he chews differently. I cant explain it, but I think he moves the food around with his tongue more or something. It makes a very distinct noise that makes me want to become a widow. I've learned to pop my ears by flexing something in me head. So when he's there smacking his food like a congested horse, I just constantly pop my ears.

I am on a 7 out of 10 scale. It can be so debilitating and embarrassing. I live with silicon ear plugs and noise canceling over ear headphones. Without them life is just unbearable.

Wind Chimes for me !!

How some women walk in heels/men in hard bottom dress shoes. There's a something about the tick, tick, tick that makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up. It's so unpleasant. Also, certain chewing sounds. And ASMR creeps me out, especially the whispering when there is no need. These really bothered me when I was younger, but as I got older, it's eased up. However, when I'm super tired, these can make me want to climb a wall.

Yes. Songs I don’t like often feel like a slow buzz saw.

Yep.

There's a radio presenter on BBC Radio 3 (UK) who has the single most annoying voice I've ever heard. She's a Mancunian - an accent very familiar and pleasant to me usually - but she's been taught to "speak tidy" (a Shropshire border expression) & so she exaggerates every final consonant and every sibilant; she also clicks her tongue after/before every sentence. The overall effect is so prissy and irritating I have to switch off before I throw my wireless out the window 🪟

I have misophonia Now that I’m pregnant it’s gotten so much worse, I’ve literally burst into tears from loud noises

Not just loud noises are painful

Hurts and scrambles brain.

Nails scratching fabric... husband thought it was funny till I reacted like a cornered animal. Knows not to do it now. It's unbearable for me, like scratching the seams of my soul, don't know why

Whistling. I have to leave the space where it happens. I have left supermarkets, events, changed seats, all to ge vaway from it. I carry earplugs. It's very real.

That description is exactly how I feel about autotune.

do not ever eat apple near me...

Now I have a name for it, thanks! I can go weeks with no particular issue and then suddenly every little sound is horrible (not precisely "painful" but that's probably the best word).

Vacuums. I go for a drive in the car with the dog when my wife vacuums. A rage builds up inside me I can't explain. I want to break plates, or punch walls.

Yes!!! Currently post concssion .. my 2nd one and it is much worse than first time. I feel this !!!

When I was in school I was sitting next to a friend and he was chewing so loudly that I was starting to cut myself with my nails to avoid cutting him. I asked him to stop and when I explained that the sound gives me anxiety and anger he called me an animal and said that Misophonia wasn't real...

Try having misophonia and bilateral tinnitus at the same time. I've had misophonia for 42 years and tinnitus for the last 31 years. White, brown, pink noise is something I honestly can't stand. White noise is the worst. I have noise cancelling on and I play music 24/7. Silence is painful, all thanks to the tinnitus.

I've been under a couple times and it is not like sleeping at all. When sleeping you have a sense of time, with anesthesia you go out and then you come back in what feels like it could be a blink even though it was hours - absolutely no sense of time.

Oh hello other me! I think the weirdest part of this type of pain is how insidious it can be. When the back pain and breathing problems are chronic like mine, you start to acclimate to the pain. But there really is no acclimating to not breathing enough. It just steals your brain from you.

I don't have or want children, but the pure joy in a young child's laughter is something else.

Horrible, traumatic losses are like this. There are times I wish there was some sort of physical sign you would get so that others could understand how bad things are, but I guess that is evolution keeping our enemies from knowing how vulnerable we are at the moment.

The amalgamation of hurt, rage, and betrayal is overwhelming.

I'm just a bathroom and car singer, but I do love the feeling of it

Oh heavens at 17? That must have been extremely devastating! I‘ve lost my first child shortly before her due date and I think I will forever be gratefull, that she died like that and has not lived to be any age within her childhood or teen years. That would have broken me.

And the other way round with loss of a child. No parent should outlive their child

I had sleep paralysis and it truly terrified me. Not long after I watched a programme about it, now I just think oh it's that again.

And it doesn't go away just because they grow up either.