In my mid to late fifties, I struggled with a medical condition that just seemed crazy. No one else had it, so it was hard to explain and sympathy wasn’t given to me. I watched 20/20, one evening in 2011 and saw Kelly Ripa describing exactly what I was feeling. The irritation with sounds that to most people went unnoticed. If I was in a meeting, with someone clicking their pen, I would stop their hand, if I was close enough. Otherwise, I became panicky and wanted to run away, or scream at them, which was socially unacceptable.
What was I to do? I pretty much self-diagnosed myself, but really didn’t know where to go from there. So I got an appointment to see a physician in the head and neck surgery department of my medical group. Honestly, I went there expecting that there was no one in my medical group that knew anything about this, since I had never heard of it.
Continue reading “Misophonia”