RE: Re: Does anyone believe this comment on exposure therapy that works?

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I think it would make the problem worse, too. For me, it would be akin to having needles poked into me in order to get used to pain. It would just hurt more and more. Really, there is no way to get used to torture.

I can't see where it would work either. If I was forced to watch and listen to the noise, I'd be frothing at the mouth and ready to kill.

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> > This comment on misophonia (which uses a cute malapropism, "misoPHOBIA") makes it sound as though it is an easy condition to treat. Anyone else think Marla Deibler of Cherry Hill, NJ, who wrote the note, is a quack? It sounds to me like she means well but hasn't a clue.

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> > I am a clinical psychologist who specializes in the treatment of OCD and I have seen cases of misophobia. I find that it can be successfully treatment with exposure therapy. For example, I saw a case like this that was so significant that the patient couldn't eat at all in the presence of others or sit with friends in the school cafeteria. She had been in treatment for OCD, but this seemed to be a related, but distinct problem. We approached it using exposure therapy. I had her start by watching You Tube videos of people eating loudly and sloppily. Then, we had a session while both chewing gum. We proceeded to slowly have her watch others eat in close proximity and then to sit with them at a meal. Eventually, she went to a hot dog eating contest (her idea) and she is now able to tolerate others eating around her and is able to eat meals with others. She eventually habituated and it bothers her very little now.

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I would probably kill the person who was trying to desensitize me. I would more likely become desensitized to killing faster than I would listening to people eating!!

To: Soundsensitivity Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2011 10:04 PMSubject: Re: Does anyone believe this comment on exposure therapy that works?

I can't see where it would work either. If I was forced to watch and listen to the noise, I'd be frothing at the mouth and ready to kill.> >> > This comment on misophonia (which uses a cute malapropism, "misoPHOBIA") makes it sound as though it is an easy condition to treat. Anyone else think Marla Deibler of Cherry Hill, NJ, who wrote the note, is a quack? It sounds to me like she means well but hasn't a clue.> > > > > > I am a clinical psychologist who specializes in the treatment of OCD and I have seen cases of misophobia. I find that it can be successfully treatment with exposure therapy. For example, I saw a case like this that was so significant that the patient couldn't eat at all in the presence of others or sit with friends in the school cafeteria. She had been in treatment for OCD, but this seemed to be a related, but distinct problem. We approached it using exposure therapy. I had her start by watching You

Tube videos of people eating loudly and sloppily. Then, we had a session while both chewing gum. We proceeded to slowly have her watch others eat in close proximity and then to sit with them at a meal. Eventually, she went to a hot dog eating contest (her idea) and she is now able to tolerate others eating around her and is able to eat meals with others. She eventually habituated and it bothers her very little now.> > > > www.thecenterforemotionalhealth.com> >>

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agreed!!

To: "Soundsensitivity " <Soundsensitivity >Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2011 3:47 AMSubject: Re: Re: Does anyone believe this comment on exposure therapy that works?

I would probably kill the person who was trying to desensitize me. I would more likely become desensitized to killing faster than I would listening to people eating!!

To: Soundsensitivity Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2011 10:04 PMSubject: Re: Does anyone believe this comment on exposure therapy that works?

I can't see where it would work either. If I was forced to watch and listen to the noise, I'd be frothing at the mouth and ready to kill.> >> > This comment on misophonia (which uses a cute malapropism, "misoPHOBIA") makes it sound as though it is an easy condition to treat. Anyone else think Marla Deibler of Cherry Hill, NJ, who wrote the note, is a quack? It sounds to me like she means well but hasn't a clue.> > > > > > I am a clinical psychologist who specializes in the treatment of OCD and I have seen cases of misophobia. I find that it can be successfully treatment with exposure therapy. For example, I saw a case like this that was so significant that the patient couldn't eat at all in the presence of others or sit with friends in the school cafeteria. She had been in treatment for OCD, but this seemed to be a related, but distinct problem. We approached it using exposure therapy. I had her start by watching You

Tube videos of people eating loudly and sloppily. Then, we had a session while both chewing gum. We proceeded to slowly have her watch others eat in close proximity and then to sit with them at a meal. Eventually, she went to a hot dog eating contest (her idea) and she is now able to tolerate others eating around her and is able to eat meals with others. She eventually habituated and it bothers her very little now.> > > > www.thecenterforemotionalhealth.com> >>

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Read this too fast....thought you were eating people! ca

I would probably kill the person who was trying to desensitize me. I would more likely become desensitized to killing faster than I would listening to people eating!!

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50 years for me, too. I have read somewhere, on this forum, it

stated that it was physiological.  Hard wired, being an electrical term, is

probably not a good way to describe it, implying a wiring change could possibly

fix it.

Thankfully, from reading this forum, I have a mild case of this –

or have gotten to a point of life where I can minimize it. I don’ go

looking for a trigger. More, like they present themselves.

From:

Soundsensitivity [mailto:Soundsensitivity ] On

Behalf Of jiggsy_design

Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2011 10:18 PM

To: Soundsensitivity

Subject: Re: Does anyone believe this comment on

exposure therapy that works?

I have lived with this for over 50 years. Are

you telling me that the " hard wiring " has been substantiated? Have I

missed something?

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> > > > > This comment on misophonia (which uses a cute

malapropism, " misoPHOBIA " ) makes it sound as though it is an easy

condition to treat. Anyone else think Marla Deibler of Cherry Hill, NJ, who

wrote the note, is a quack? It sounds to me like she means well but hasn't a

clue.

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> > > > > I am a clinical psychologist who specializes in the

treatment of OCD and I have seen cases of misophobia. I find that it can be

successfully treatment with exposure therapy. For example, I saw a case like

this that was so significant that the patient couldn't eat at all in the

presence of others or sit with friends in the school cafeteria. She had been in

treatment for OCD, but this seemed to be a related, but distinct problem. We

approached it using exposure therapy. I had her start by watching You Tube

videos of people eating loudly and sloppily. Then, we had a session while both

chewing gum. We proceeded to slowly have her watch others eat in close

proximity and then to sit with them at a meal. Eventually, she went to a hot

dog eating contest (her idea) and she is now able to tolerate others eating

around her and is able to eat meals with others. She eventually habituated and

it bothers her very little now.

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> > > > > www.thecenterforemotionalhealth.com

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You have been watching too many living dead movies:)

To: Soundsensitivity Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2011 11:51 PMSubject: Re: Re: Does anyone believe this comment on exposure therapy that works?

Read this too fast....thought you were eating people! ca

I would probably kill the person who was trying to desensitize me. I would more likely become desensitized to killing faster than I would listening to people eating!!

[Guest guest]

I do like horror movies...and DEXTER. I have to turn the sound off for the intro to Dexter and I don't watch till its over.LIsa in Ca

You have been watching too many living dead movies:)

To: Soundsensitivity Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2011 11:51 PMSubject: Re: Re: Does anyone believe this comment on exposure therapy that works?

Read this too fast....thought you were eating people! ca

I would probably kill the person who was trying to desensitize me. I would more likely become desensitized to killing faster than I would listening to people eating!!