When Life slaps you right in the core of your soul. As we all have our good days some far and few between and the pain and depression that goes with this damn tinnitus, it's rather hard to look at what other people are suffering.
When your loved ones are miles away and through electronic communication, you receive a shocking bit of news, that makes our tinnitus seem not quite as severe. My brother had sent an email 6 months back about the same time as my hearing and tinnitus was driving me mad. He had told us his wife was in early stages of dementia, that was a shock to us. Then after more tests, the specialist tells them that his wife is in second stage of Alzheimer's.
So our suffering with tinnitus is sometimes unbearable, but with other folks, knowing that a life of one of the worst diseases possible, and the lightbulb slowly going out, as the specialist told them, we truly need to accept we are not the only ones who are suffering.
Look around, reach out a caring heart, even a hello helps.