Misophonia Trigger Tamer 4+
Thomas Dozier
Designed for iPad
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- £9.99
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Description
The app lets your brain experience a very positive stimulus (music or other activity) while occasionally hearing small bits of triggers. This experience may reduce your response to specific misophonia triggers. As your response slowly declines, you can slowly increase the length and volume of the trigger to maintain a tiny miso-response. This is intended to be a very pleasant experience – a Happy Time as it says in the app.
Load your favorite music from iTunes. You can load a trigger using iTunes or record and edit a trigger with the app. Your job is to relax (or dance) to the music, and allow your misophonic response to fade away.
This method has reduces the misophonic response in people with very specific triggers. For example, if you trigger to the sound of a family member chewing, but not strangers, this method may be effective. If you trigger to the chewing sounds of anyone (and anywhere), then this method is unlikely to produce improvement in the way you react to real-life trigger sounds.
Relaxing muscles before triggers has been reported to reduce the misophonic response. This app can also be used to practice the behavioral skill of relaxing (which is a behavior learned through practice).
Caution: Do not use the Trigger Tamer if it is unpleasant. Don't "be tough" and use a strong trigger. This app is for wimps. Take it easy, start with a very low volume, short trigger that creates an "eye blink" size reaction. Allow your response to change slowly. When the response decreases, you can then increase the length and volume of the trigger, always keeping your response very small and brief.
What’s New
Version 3.18
Bug Fixing.
Ratings and Reviews
It actually works!! I'm finally misophonia-free after 35 years...
Amazingly this app actually works. I've had misophonia for about 35 years and this is the *only* thing that has ever permanently eased it. (I've tried everything before - only noise-cancelling headphones playing white/pink noise helped, but that was only 'avoidance', not 'cure').
I found the app to be a very useful tool to help understand my own trigger response mechanism; with very short trigger times (~200 milliseconds) I was aware of my physical reaction phase but didn't suffer the subsequent emotional miso rage/crash. Any longer than that short duration initially triggered my full miso reaction but after only two training sessions I can listen to a sustained ('brutal' even) blast of my primary trigger sound with only a barely perceptible emotional reaction. Truly amazing!!
Once you understand the initial physical reaction you can retrain yourself to relax. I think this is key to proper use of the app. This works because no physical reaction = no subsequent emotional miso reaction a split-second after. With the help of this app this has been the first time I have fully understood what is going on. I never even knew before that I had *any* physical reaction at all - it seemed purely emotional. Knowledge is power I guess!!
Although it is still early days I feel that this app has already cured me of this devastating disease. For example I've noticed that out in public is now a pleasure rather than the living hell that it always has been previously...
Many many thanks to the developers for creating such an incredibly useful tool!!
App Privacy
The developer, Thomas Dozier, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.
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Information
- Provider
- Thomas Dozier
- Size
- 36.9 MB
- Category
- Health & Fitness
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 13.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 13.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 13.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © By Tom Dozier, MS
- Price
- £9.99
Supports
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Family Sharing
Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.