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    If You Shake the Anxiety, You Lose the Suffering

    It's both. I guess the brain just filters it out all the time, but if I walked into my house from a loud heavy down pour, the contrast MAY make aware of the T but then it still doesn't bug me. Just a noise. Not a bad noise. Not a good noise. Just a noise. Ill notice it like I would notice a...
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    If You Shake the Anxiety, You Lose the Suffering

    I'll send you a private message later on with contact details. The best thing I can suggest is, and this is going to be weird saying on here, but stop going to forum. I had to make a conscious choice to delete my browsing history at one point because it was literally filled with thousands of...
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    If You Shake the Anxiety, You Lose the Suffering

    Hey Robert, I hear my tinnitus all the time, or should I say that it's audible all the time, but I often don't register it. It's why I became a firm believer in habituation. When I first heard of it, it just seemed like someone telling you that you will always suffer from it, but will...
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    If You Shake the Anxiety, You Lose the Suffering

    Thats kind of what I'm saying. Distraction is needed in the early stages of suffering with it to break that hear it - focus on it - get anxious about it loop. If you can break that cycle, your brain stops associating the sound to anxiety, which is what people having a hard time with tinnitus are...
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    If You Shake the Anxiety, You Lose the Suffering

    Tinnitus has been with me to some degree since Feb 6, 2008. Got guilt tripped into going to a shitty ska concert during Mardi Gras break my freshmen year in college. left the concert with a ringing in my left ear that didn't fade like it has after the multitude of concert I had been to before...
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    First Time Posting, Need Advice

    Okay, so an update. Kind of bizarre. I got home from staying at my aunt's house following my wisdom tooth removal. I got home distraught over my tinnitus being/seeming worse. I sat here reading doom and gloom on here while massaging the knot in my jaw for 30 mins or so thinking the worst. Got up...
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    First Time Posting, Need Advice

    Hello, all. The following is going to be bit a read so don't feel shy to just skim through, but reading my give a more complete picture of my situation. First an important bit of info to keep in mind while reading this. I have general anxiety disorder. Had a pretty bad childhood(as im sure a...