The Misophonia Podcast
Candid conversations with people who live with Misophonia. Misophonia is a disorder in which there is a strong sensitivity to certain sounds. A person with misophonia feels rage and an inability to focus on anything but that sound. It feels like a fight-or-flight response. Host Adeel Ahmad has misophonia and interviews other "misophones" from around the world. All episodes are edited to be more sensory-friendly including equalization and brown noise. If you'd like to be a guest, go to https://misophoniapodcast.com. Theme music is "jltf" by Moby, courtesy of https://mobygratis.com The contents of this podcast should not be considered medical advice or therapy.
Episodes
233 episodes
Emma: When Misophonia Feels Like Exposed-Nerve Pain
This short bonus episode is a supplement to my last interview, with Emma. Here, Emma wanted to more clearly express what it really feels like to have misophonia. You can find her interview here:https://misophoniapodcast.com/epi...
Emma: Reparenting the Rage She Hid Since Childhood
This week I’m talking to Emma, an artist from North London, on a misophonia retreat at the time of this recording. We walk about about her lifelong experience with misophonia and the process of finally confronting it after years of secrecy and ...
Nimrod: CBT Without Forcing Exposure
In this episode, I speak with Nimrod, a CBT therapist and social worker based in Tel Aviv, Israel, who has been working with people with misophonia for the past several years. We discuss his clinical approach, the role of CBT, how stress and re...
Pia: The Closet, the Mask, and a Calmer Nervous System
This week I’m talking to Pia Watson. Pia is an actor, artist, and body-mind transpersonal therapist currently in Mexico City and about to move to London. We talk about her experience with misophonia, autism, ADHD, and autistic burnout, and how ...
Lila: From Triggered Musician to Clinical Hypnotherapist
This week I’m talking to Lila, again! This is Lila’s third time on the podcast. And we meet her at yet another transformation. She shares her journey from being a touring musician to becoming a clinical hypnotherapist. She discusses her persona...
B: When Substance Use Becomes Sound Protection
This week I'm talking to B about navigating misophonia from childhood through their twenties and into their thirties. We talk about those early memories—kicking the back of their dad's truck seat during long drives, the anxiety of asking for ac...
Lorin & Eric: Turning Trigger Rage Into Dark Comedy
This week I'm talking to Los Angeles actors and filmmakers Lorin and Eric Davis about Lorin’s experience with misophonia and how it shaped their new short film. Lorin shares how her sound triggers—especially crinkling bags, rummaging noises, an...
Steve & Diane Miller: Funding Misophonia’s Moonshots
I'm honored to speak with Steve and Diane Miller, the incredible couple behind the Misophonia Research Fund. When their daughter Rachel started being triggered by their voices and chewing about nine years ago, they didn't just try to cope, they...
Fay: Making a Comedy-Horror Film From Trigger Rage
In this episode, I speak with Fay, a Los Angeles-based multimedia artist, actor, and filmmaker who's working on a comedy-horror short film about misophonia. Diagnosed with severe misophonia along with autism, ADHD, fibromyalgia, and several oth...
Michelle G.: Printing Misophonia in Layers of Ink and Sound
This week I’m talking to Michelle, an animator and 3D artist based in Malta—one of the most population-dense places in Europe. After discovering her misophonia and realizing how Malta's constant noise amplified her struggles, Michelle channeled...
Michael C.: Rewriting the Memory Behind the Trigger
This week I’m talking to Michael, a 70-year-old retired software engineer who experienced a remarkable breakthrough with his lifelong misophonia. After hearing episode 218 with Sarah Barrick about memory reconsolidation, and following a painful...
Gabriel: When a Parent Tries Exposure at the Dinner Table
This week I talk with Gabriel, a 45-year-old marketing professional from Western Montana. Gabriel shares his lifelong experience with misophonia that started around age five or six, primarily triggered by eating sounds from those closest to him...
Esty: The Londoner Who Moved to a Farm for Quiet
This week I talk with Esty, from the UK. Esty reflects on growing up in a large religious community in London, where misophonia first surfaced around age 10. She shares how isolation at family meals, a lack of understanding at home and school, ...
Beverly: The Movement Practice That Became a Misophonia App
This week I talk with Beverly, a Feldenkrais practitioner from Southern California. Beverly reflects on growing up as the youngest of five in a loud Midwestern household, and how misophonia shaped her early experiences of family dynamics, schoo...
Andy: Leading a Factory Floor You Can’t Tune Out
This week I talk with Andy, a production supervisor from Lexington, Kentucky. Andy shares how misophonia shows up in both his personal and professional life, and how emotional intelligence has become essential in his role. We talk about growing...
Sara Barrick, LMFT: The “Iceberg” Beneath a Trigger
Today we’re reconnecting with a guest who many of you will remember from one of our most popular episodes a couple of years ago. Sara Barrick, formerly Sara Bidler, has returned to share more of her invaluable insights. Since we last spoke, Sar...
Jo: The Apartment That Made Every Trigger Louder
Jo works in project management for the NHS in the UK. Jo’s greatest miso issue currently is her noisy apartment which has exacerbated her condition, leading to a lot of stress and frustration. Jo reflects on her childhood, particularly her rela...
Between Two Ears: Inside an MRI With Trigger Sounds
In the second episode of the series "Between Two Ears", I share my recent trip to Iowa City to participate in a groundbreaking misophonia research study led by Dr. Sukhbinder Kumar — a continuation of his earlier work on mirror neurons and the ...
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Stacy: Joining a Misophonia Study Before It Had a Name
Stacy is an accomplished brand and creative strategist whose journey with misophonia began long before the condition even had a name. Stacy takes us through her early experiences participating in a college study on sound sensitivity back in the...
Carlie: The Job Loss That Unmasked Her Nervous System
Carlie is up in northern Alberta, of the great independent nation of Canada. Carlie shares her personal misophonia journey, her experiences with therapy through the years, and her path to self-discovery and understanding her neurodivergence. Sh...
Dr. Lauren Harte-Hargrove: Who Decides What Gets Researched?
I'm excited to have Dr. Lauren Harte-Hargrove, executive director of the Misophonia Research Fund (MRF). We talk about this fund’s origins, and the evolution of research around misophonia. We start by getting a little into her background in neu...
Dr. Jaelline Jaffe: A Misophonia Protocol Beyond the Trigger
Dr. Jaelline Jaffe is one of the most experienced therapists working with people with misophonia, over on the west coast. Jaelline shares her journey from teaching to becoming a therapist specializing in misophonia. We talk about a ton of thing...
Dr. Jaelline Jaffe: Can Family Trauma Change Gene Expression?
Meagan is an actress based in San Diego. Meagan shares her personal journey with misophonia as a wife and mother of 3, including her experiences with therapy and self-regulation techniques. She discusses Image Transformational Therapy (ImTT) th...
Alex: When a Trigger Sounds Like an Old Family Pattern
This week I’m talking to Alex from beautiful Victoria, British Columbia. Alex shares her lifelong journey with misophonia, which began at age 11 amid a turbulent home life. She opens up about how her sensitivity to sounds, especially during fam...
Kathryn: Parenting After Psilocybin and Acupuncture
Kathryn runs an ecology non-profit in southern Oregon. She shares her journey with misophonia, particularly how it has impacted her life as a parent. She reflects on her childhood experiences with sound sensitivity, the lack of understanding fr...