Am I Obsessing About Tinnitus?

[Cityjohn]

I've read a lot of reports over the years from people who have said that for them, staying away from any interaction with tinnitus forums was very necessary for any habituation to happen. I wouldn't necessarily say the same, but I will say, the worse I feel, the more I think about tinnitus, the more time I spend on here -- and I don't think that's especially useful to me.

I like to read about tinnitus on non-specific forums (motorcycle forums, musician forums, firearms forums, etc) -- threads about tinnitus on hobby forums for loud hobbies always get lots of replies, and you often see many people expressing sentiments like "I've got loud constant tinnitus because I played with (drums | keyboard | AR-15s | Kawasaki bikes) for many years, it's a pain in the butt, but I still (play drums | shoot AR-15s | ride bikes)." I always take that as an interesting counterpoint to other viewpoints.

I see what you mean.

It's in my character to jump head first into things once they cross my path in such a way. It helped me a lot to burn the candle brightly as it were. I habituated in 3 months. I think finding out that there is a way forward I could achieve independently from others really helped me, because it was around that time I started working on my college courses again.

 

[The Red Viper]

I see what you mean.

It's in my character to jump head first into things once they cross my path in such a way. It helped me a lot to burn the candle brightly as it were. I habituated in 3 months. I think finding out that there is a way forward I could achieve independently from others really helped me, because it was around that time I started working on my college courses again.

Yeah I feel the same way, although now I have become much better. One of three things happened: 1) I habituated (not likely); 2) steroid nasal sprays helped with my Eustachian tube dysfunction (ETD) and the T has reduced to almost nothing; or 3) I've always had some kind of ambient sound and I never really noticed it until the ETD was giving me massive headaches. I think it's a combination of 2 and 3 to be honest.

But thanks to this experience, I want to advance knowledge in the neuroscience field (and AI as well!). While I still care about my current path with my law degree, I want to pursue more scientific avenues now.

 

[Cityjohn]

and AI as well!

Hah no kidding I've always been interested in synthetic intelligence. (not traditional AI)