ITV's resident doctor, Dr Amir Khan, has opened up about a medical condition he has diagnosed himself with. The NHS GP is often featured on various ITV talk shows, such as Lorraine, Loose Women, and This Morning, to share educational health advice and information with viewers.

When he is not on screen, he works for the NHS at his surgery in Bradford. In his free time, he uploads informative content to his thousands of social media followers. In a recent Instagram video, Dr Amir Khanspoke about a condition he is convinced he has.

It didn't take long for the comment section to become flooded with messages from fans as many supported the doctor by sharing their own experiences. At the start of the video, he said: "Right team, I think I have a medical condition called misophonia. I'm diagnosing myself. I feel like I've got the qualifications."

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Misophonia is becoming more known as a brain and mental health issue. It involves strong negative feelings or physical reactions, such as anger, anxiety, or disgust, to certain sounds that many people usually overlook, like chewing or tapping.

Although it isn't officially recognised in all medical guides yet, it's considered a condition that affects how people live their daily lives. It's often connected to anxiety, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), and the way to manage it usually includes therapy and sound masking instead of a complete cure.

Dr Amir Khan added: "It's a real thing. Misophonia means hatred of sounds, but not all sounds, just specific sounds that make me want to launch myself into another galaxy. Like people chewing with their mouth open and that noise they make, or people clicking pens in meetings that should have been emails, or loud and unnecessary talking in public places when you're on a train or something."

He continued: "But it's weird because those kinds of noises, like loud chewing, if it's an animal doing it, like my cat or my hedgehog in the garden, I love it. But if it's a human, I can't cope with it.

"So anyway, this condition is called myasophonia. And I think I have it, Chewy noises. Do you guys have it? Is there any noise that really stresses you out?"

In the comment section, several people supported the NHS GP by praising him for opening up about his experiences and sharing their own. One person said: "Oh yes, you are not on your own with this."

A second said: "Oh no, Dr Khan! I fear that I have the same condition! Another one to add to the list of conditions that I think I have." A third put: "My husband has it as did his mother."

Another wrote: "Also self diagnosed myself with this, we laugh about it, but actually it’s so awful. I think mine kicked in as a teenager and I remember I just couldn’t be on the same room as my parents eating... No one can really understand it fully if they’ve not experienced it, it can be really awful. Extra triggers - heavy breathers, banging plates with cutlery, rustling packets of crisis or wrappers etc."