#206 Today's guest is Dr. Mark Zachary Rosenthal—a clinical psychologist and an Associate Professor in the Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences department and the Psychology & Neuroscience department at Duke University. He is also the director of the Duke Center for Misophonia and Emotion Regulation (CMER), where he pioneers research on misophonia, emotional functioning, borderline personality disorder, virtual reality, digital health, and behavioral therapies. We are also joined by Grace Heppes, the Outreach and Education Coordinator for CMER. In this episode, we discuss:

+ How our body generates emotions & the purpose of our emotions

+ Reasons that certain people have dysregulated emotions

+ Why dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT) is so unique & its key principles

+ A hack for finding a qualified, DBT-based clinician

+ The connection between suicidal ideation & emotion dysregulation

+ What misophonia is & how people's views of it have changed over time

+ How people react to misophonia triggers & why this ties to emotion regulation

+ The realities of living with misophonia

+ Tools to help people struggling with misophonia

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+ CMER Website

+ CMER Instagram

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