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It's a complex subject but it means that the problem you have is inoculating the rest of your brain against the action which will solve the problem. An example would be depression: The best treatment (or one of the best) for depression is intensive exercise but guess what...the last thing you...

I agree with Michael Leigh. If your T seems to be getting louder and you haven't been exposed to a new acoustic trauma then it's your perception of T which is getting worse and it's most likely because you're focusing on it more (you're conscious mind is focusing your unconscious mind on it) or...

Habituation comes when you stop caring about your T. When you stop caring then there is no emotional valence to the signal and thus your amygdala stops attaching emotional "weighting" to it. The signal which is being received by the basolateral nucleus is shunted through to the central nucleus...

You're confusing getting louder (a person's own objective criteria based on its perception without further damage to the cochlea). With "getting worse" (damaging the cochlea more through exposure to further loud noise).

http://nootriment.com/gaba-agonist/

Bear in mind; when the fight or flight emotional response is hitting your pre-frontal cortex at the same time it's also receiving feedback from your body on your physiological state (heart rate, respiration, cortisol levels, adrenaline levels). If your physiological state isn't in keeping with...

If you don't worry about it then it gets better that's why habituation happens. If you do worry about it it takes longer to become habituated. If you worry about it a lot and obsess about it then it gets worse. It doesn't actually get louder it's just that you make a bigger deal about it in your...

Danny, in the article COX2 is mentioned. In your research have you come across any information regarding either COX or LOX as being a contributor to Tinnitus type neuro excitatory behaviours? The reason I ask is there are quite a few proven natural COX and LOX inhibitors in use at the moment...

Anxiety doesn't actually make your T louder it just makes it more noticeable, there's a big difference. Have you ever cut yourself and not noticed until you see the blood and as soon as you do it's starts hurting? It's the same principle. The Tinnitus/pain was always there but it's the paying...

Alas, thinking about something as in visualising or listening for something can create changes in the brains neural architecture. It's like holding a picture in your minds eye, when you do so the unconscious mind finds it difficult to separate what's real from what's not. That's why visualising...

Valeri, you don't have to live like this forever, it's impossible. Since I first got T I have read every single scholarly article on it and it's treatment. Over the last 6 month I can't keep up, the amount of research now is absolutely enormous and the reason being whoever finds a cure will most...

Great post. The cognitive mechanics you're describing ties in with one of the hot topics in theory of consciousness research, namely "global workspace theory". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Workspace_Theory. The conscious mind has to deal with a host of signals from the unconscious mind...

Brilliant post, fake it till you make it then (eventually) you're not faking anymore. You're not actually lying to yourself, you're deciding whats true and resetting your mind accordingly.

That would make your tinnitus worse as you're ascribing huge emotional content to the sound. If anyone feels suicidal then they need professional help. It's a permanent solution to a temporary problem. Nearly everyone who gets tinnitus feels depressed about it at the time, but when you...

The more you think about it, the more important it becomes to you and the harder it is to ignore it. The conscious mind inhibits emotional responses from you unconscious mind when it realises they aren't of any importance to your survival or well being or they might get you into trouble by...