The more people that get t the more pressure on science for a cure. Which is good, but I would never wish t on ANYONE.
Exactly. While people can get tinnitus from being reckless or irresponsible with their hearing, it's not like anyone gets it on a dare. Our society encourages exposure to loud noise as a regular thing, and as a completely innocuous thing, reckless or not. No one is trying to give it to people.
If enough milleneals start getting it bad enough, the "youth" of America, and the West and first world generally, a critical mass will be achieved, one would think, that could create the impetus needed to fund a cure. Then again, T is not fatal, and it could consistently be underprioritized in our competitive, financially tightly strung modern economy. I guess like it apparently always has been thus far.
I read some article where Pete Townsend was reflecting on his T and years of hearing loss and loud, loud music, and he was blaming it mainly on his headphones in the recording studio, and his last comments were some dire thoughts about the future of T for young people, like it's going to end up being an epidemic of sorts moving forward, with everyone so ear-plugged in all the time.
So while it sucks for anyone to get it, the silver lining could maybe be,if so many are getting it to varying degrees, a galvanized medical community that wants to tackle this thing once and for all. Hearing is so critical, and T is such an unwholesome, inhuman sort of torture, at least when it's bad. It's the sort of thing that just cannot stand! Habituation is one thing, but we have it within our power to conquer it. I would think it's mainly a matter of the financial, and almost moral will to follow through.
My sister (26, 3 years older than me) also goes to clubs frequently. She says she has had temporary rining, but not permanent. She knows about my condition but she doesn't care, and I cant do anything. I guess its her risk then.
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