Dear tinnitus members,
Many of you dont know me, but I am the same as you. Just a regular person with tinnitus. When it first began I felt the same as you. Extreme distress, heightened emotions, despair, fear, anger, and many other negative emotions. I, like you, tried for months to find the cause of my tinnitus. I researched for months and months and in the end, I felt even more despair and disappointment. I started my Masters in Audiology that's how obsessed I was. Going back to study was the best thing I could have done for my tinnitus. Having something in my life that meant MORE to me than the ringing in my ear helped me reach the place I am today. Where am I you ask? I'm still Nina. I've still got tinnitus. Yes, it's still annoying, of course it is. But you know what? Tinnitus doesnt DEFINE me. I am no longer tinnitus with a bit of Nina, I am Nina with a bit of tinnitus. If there is one bit of advice I can give you it is to do or find other things in your life that require concentration and dedication that is NOT related to tinnitus. Do not complain about your tinnitus. No your tinnitus is not worse than everybody elses. No your tinnitus isnt louder than everybody elses and no, when people give you advice do not tell them that they do not understand or that they do not know what its like to have a constant ringing in their ear. You simply HAVE TO reach a finishing point. Fine, complain about your tinnitus initially, its distressing, its fine to complain, but after a few months. STOP IT! There's no need to repeat your despair over and over again. Of course if you keep complaining, hypothesising and obsessing the tinnitus will remain at the forefront of your mind. Fill your life with other things and tinnitus will lose much of it's power. USE SOUND ENRICHMENT! There is absolutely no reason for you to be trying to sit in silence. For what? To punish yourself? What for? So what if you need to have continual sound around you. Don't freak out spikes in your tinnitus. Freaking out CAUSES the spike to continue. Its normal for tinnitus to go up and down. It normal for it to be constant. Salt, sugar, caffeine, etc. Fine in moderation. Everything in moderation is good for you. Get out there and exercise. Exercise until it hurts so bad that you think you cant go on, and then go double as far. Push yourself. No one else will push you, that is your responsibility. How you deal with this is up to YOU. Only you have that power and only YOU can change that. And you can. OK, enough power talk. Sorry about the lack of paragraphing! Haha
Merry Xmas people!
Many of you dont know me, but I am the same as you. Just a regular person with tinnitus. When it first began I felt the same as you. Extreme distress, heightened emotions, despair, fear, anger, and many other negative emotions. I, like you, tried for months to find the cause of my tinnitus. I researched for months and months and in the end, I felt even more despair and disappointment. I started my Masters in Audiology that's how obsessed I was. Going back to study was the best thing I could have done for my tinnitus. Having something in my life that meant MORE to me than the ringing in my ear helped me reach the place I am today. Where am I you ask? I'm still Nina. I've still got tinnitus. Yes, it's still annoying, of course it is. But you know what? Tinnitus doesnt DEFINE me. I am no longer tinnitus with a bit of Nina, I am Nina with a bit of tinnitus. If there is one bit of advice I can give you it is to do or find other things in your life that require concentration and dedication that is NOT related to tinnitus. Do not complain about your tinnitus. No your tinnitus is not worse than everybody elses. No your tinnitus isnt louder than everybody elses and no, when people give you advice do not tell them that they do not understand or that they do not know what its like to have a constant ringing in their ear. You simply HAVE TO reach a finishing point. Fine, complain about your tinnitus initially, its distressing, its fine to complain, but after a few months. STOP IT! There's no need to repeat your despair over and over again. Of course if you keep complaining, hypothesising and obsessing the tinnitus will remain at the forefront of your mind. Fill your life with other things and tinnitus will lose much of it's power. USE SOUND ENRICHMENT! There is absolutely no reason for you to be trying to sit in silence. For what? To punish yourself? What for? So what if you need to have continual sound around you. Don't freak out spikes in your tinnitus. Freaking out CAUSES the spike to continue. Its normal for tinnitus to go up and down. It normal for it to be constant. Salt, sugar, caffeine, etc. Fine in moderation. Everything in moderation is good for you. Get out there and exercise. Exercise until it hurts so bad that you think you cant go on, and then go double as far. Push yourself. No one else will push you, that is your responsibility. How you deal with this is up to YOU. Only you have that power and only YOU can change that. And you can. OK, enough power talk. Sorry about the lack of paragraphing! Haha
Merry Xmas people!
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