People with misophonia experience intense fight-or-flight reactions to triggering everyday sounds such as chewing, slurping, crunching, throat-clearing, and clapping
Have YOU got a story? EmailLittle House on the Prairie alum Melissa Gilbert just revealed she suffers from a disorder called misophonia and it was 'a really dark and difficult part of my childhood.'
Melissa continued: 'I would just glare at my parents and my grandmother and my siblings with eyes filled with hate. I really just thought that I was rude. And I felt really bad. And guilty, which is an enormous component of misophonia, the guilt that you feel for these feelings of fight or flight. It's a really isolating disorder.'
The former SAG president eventually reached out to Duke Center for Misophonia & Emotion Regulation director Dr. Zach Rosenthal, who finally diagnosed her: 'I sobbed when I found out that it had a name and I wasn't just a bad person.' The LA-born, Catskills-based grandmother - whose younger sister is Sara Gilbert - added: 'Now everyone around me doesn't have to walk on eggshells.'
Gilbert only got 'more touchy' after menopause: 'As the estrogen leaked out, the anger seeped in and it started to really affect me on a daily basis with loved ones' Other celebrities who reportedly suffer from the disorder include Kelly Ripa , Richard E. Grant , Melanie Lynskey , Sarah Silverman, Lisa Loeb, and Kelly Osbourne
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