Body

a theme of Subjective Experience of Triggers in Misophonia

Dibb et al. (2026) interviewed 24 adults reporting misophonia (screened with the Misophonia Response Scale) and, using reflexive thematic analysis, documented the self-reported bodily experience accompanying triggers, including a raised heart rate, body-wide electric-shock sensations, and, for some participants, unwanted sexual arousal, together with involuntary behavioural responses such as staring, mimicking, fleeing, and hypervigilance. The authors concluded that the misophonic response is experienced as a whole-body phenomenon combining visceral physiological change with reflexive, hard-to-suppress behavior (Dibb et al., 2026).