Michelle LaMarche Marrese, a 52-year-old New Yorker, was found dead at her home on the East Side, Manhattan, on October 30, 2016.
Her Facebook page was filled with reports of marital problems (a woman in her 30s was married), and a reporter with whom she previously corresponded says she suffered from misophonia, a strange state of intolerance to sounds.
She called her husband Michael "the noisy eater." This is reported by the British tabloid Daily Mail.
Michelle was a fairly well-known historian in Manhattan, and an article about her suicide and misophonia appeared in The New York Times from reporter Joyce Cohen, with whom Michelle had previously corresponded by e-mail.
Cohen writes that Marris must have killed herself by being unable to tolerate the sounds that pestered her anymore.
Misophonia, literally "aversion to sounds," is a form of intolerance for sounds. It is considered a neurological disorder caused by negative experiences associated with certain sounds, loud or quiet.
The term was coined by American neuroscientists Pavel Yastrebov and Margaret Yastrebova. The term is often used synonymously with the term selective sound sensitivity.
Misophonia sufferers are most often irritated or even furious at common sounds such as clipping another person's nails, brushing teeth, eating, breathing, sniffing, talking, sneezing, yawning, walking, chewing gum, snoring, whistling, or cough, certain consonants, or repetitive sounds.
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Misophonia has hardly been studied as a phenomenon at the moment, and this condition is not considered a mental disorder by the American Psychological Association.
The tabloid reports that Michelle was originally from Russia. In her letters to Cohen, she wrote that her husband Michael Marris exasperated her with noisy sounds of eating food and such noisy breathing, as if he had just run a marathon. The couple lived together for 30 years, and recently Michelle has often talked about divorce. She wanted to be left alone.
She also accused her husband of lying and hurting herself. Shortly before her death, Michelle asked her friend to change the name of her page on Facebook, attributing the word "Remembering" to it.
“Unfortunately, the constant verbal battles around the noise that no one else can hear but me is ruining my marriage and my health,” Michelle wrote in a message to Cohen.
Michelle also complained that she was annoyed by the sound of air from the ventilation and toilet.
"We experienced 18 months of the shrill sound from the toilet next door."
Also, a neighbor who started repairs caused her big problems. Michelle even had to buy special industrial headphones to avoid hearing the sounds of the repair. And when she complained about her problems to her husband, she did not receive, she said, any sympathy from him.
Michelle wrote about her strange condition on a Facebook page dedicated to misophonia:
“I’m ready to cut my throat after New Years Eve, when I had another fight with my husband … I can’t go on like this anymore.”
Marris wrote that she suffers from anxiety attacks, migraines, and heart palpitations. This not only caused problems in the marriage, but also affected her work:
"If my trip to Russia is canceled because of this, the book I have been working on for 13 years will take even longer."
“I am worried if I can get a stroke or heart attack because of my intolerance to sounds. Even headphones do not save me, as my ears are constantly itching and this only adds irritation."
“I'm trapped. I have so much material, I have to go to the library to work, but there is endless puffing, gum chewing, coughing and so on."
Shortly before her suicide, Michelle wrote to Cohen that she apologized for her outpouring and that she had left her contacts to her husband.
"If I can no longer endure this agony, you can write about me."
Translation into Russian specially for the site "Paranormal News"