Have you got isolation-induced misophonia… or are you just in a plain, old, bad mood? Read more on Grazia.
For me, it was the seemingly unbearable scratching of a badly connected Teams call. Words echoed, scratched, went missing, stuck and then repeated – that was the noise that, this morning, finally nearly tipped me over the edge.
I genuinely almost left the meeting. Almost told everyone else to leave the meeting. I think, because I was seeing red - and it’s not totally clear and my brain was so fuzzed by the schrshhshhshhs noises – I said something along the lines of ‘SORRY BUT CAN EVERYONE HERE THAT FUCKING AWFUL NOISE TOO?’ They could – it was annoying. But they were coping a little better.
You should also DEFINITELY watch Gina Martin’s video about the noise of her neighbour constantly watching porn…like that children’s book, Peace At Last. The on where the dad bear can’t get to sleep in the bedroom because his wife is snoring, in the spare room because his kid is pretending to be an aeroplane, in the lounge because the clock is ticking, or in the garden because the owl is twit-twooing.
‘Surprisingly, isolation has actually helped with my condition as I'm not as exposed to fellow office-based colleagues that chew loudly,’ says misophonia sufferer John. ‘It's an unexpected blessing! I work in a small office and work close to a colleague who for some reason could eat something as basic as buttered bread and yet make a sound comparable to a cement mixer turning whilst filled with sludge.
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