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I take Zopiclone, a sleeping tablet. On bad days, I take a full dose—one pill of 7.5 mg—about an hour before bed. On good days, half a pill does the trick. It helps me fall asleep, and if I wake up in the middle of the night with my tinnitus at its loudest, I can easily fall back to sleep. The...

I was 48 years old when I first heard the term “misophonia,” but I immediately knew it described what I had been suffering from all my life. My earliest memories are of sitting at the dinner table, trembling with rage and anxiety as I listened to my father chew his food. Ticking clocks, clicking...