Body

Trigger phenomenology in youth misophonia

Guzick et al. (2024) characterized triggers in 20 youth-parent dyads using the Misophonia Assessment Interview and found the most common triggers were breathing, sniffing, and yawning, followed by eating/chewing, tapping, and throat clearing, with anger, annoyance, distress, and disgust as the most common emotional responses and loss of self-control and yelling as the most common reactive behaviors. The authors concluded that sounds were upsetting most often due to the nature and specific pattern of the sound rather than its volume (Guzick et al., 2024).