It depends on the state of you ears. My ears are like glass. I am having trouble living like a hermit. I am sinking deeper everyday. I would say it takes a lot of work to destroy your ears to the point of where my ears are currently. I believe my case to be rare. I am so heartbroken. When a chronic illness takes away everything that defined you, your sense of self can get lost. You need to reinvent yourself because everything you did in life that defined you, you can no longer do.
@4Grace, I'm with you, and I can't really say anything all that helpful. I think our brains are just wired slightly differently than most people, so we are more susceptible to "phantom limb" type pain.
I would say, that right now, I'm just "tired". My entire life has been hard, and I'm simply "tired". I'm not really burned out from my employment, my employment actually helps me, I work in a quiet office, everyone here knows not to cause any sudden noise, everyone is careful even closing the door so there is no latch click. I'm tired from leading a hard life, I'm tired from living in a house with conflict, which I've done everything possible to reduce, PTSD from child abuse and all the complications resulted in this hard life. If I could sell my soul to the devil, in exchange for a set of new adopted parents, and my life to do over, I would. Of course, I don't see the devil hanging around anywhere making any such deals.
Not everyone gets dealt the same hand, some hands are just bad, and others are even worse, I don't really have anything more sensible to say.
I stay well away from barking dogs and I keep my hearing protection handy. In my office I don't require anything like hearing protection, at home usually not, unless I'm doing dishes. If I'm outside I routinely wear Bose QC25. This is a person who used to play first violin in the symphony, who has a large collection of music and video, who now watches Netflix turned on low with CC, if I even have the energy to watch anything.
I think I've got long COVID-19 as well.
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