Don't be afraid of it. Yes, we may have T, but imagine having cancer/ebola/anything worse. T is not dangerous at all. It is annoying, but we can live with it.
Say to yourself 'T is not that bad. I am a strong and brave person. I won't panic. I will control myself. I will enjoy life to the fullest. T can't stop me from being happy'
Losing the ability to hear silence, or near silence, likely for the rest of your life, and be subjected 24/7 to a sound, that often is very much the kind of sound we would have dearly avoided back when we were healthy, can be devastating. Such words of encouragement can sometimes do very little in the midst of this reality.
Sometimes such words can also paint the wrong picture of this condition. If we, the sufferers, paint this picture of this condition, are we possibly doing the worst possible thing for ourselves; letting the medical and scientific field think that this indeed isn't as pressing an issue as many others?
@Markku
Well said Markku.
I would like to make a comment to
@Joel4 . Tinnitus comes in many forms and intensities and no two people experience it the same. It can be: mild, moderate, severe, or very severe. When it is mild or moderate many people are able to habituate to it and go about their life doing everything that they want to with relative ease, as you are doing.
However, what you don't realize, the way tinnitus affects you isn't how everyone else feels. You have only had tinnitus a short while and hopefully it will remain at a low level. Please read below, a segment of text taken from my post titled: Tinnitus, A way forward. The full post is in my article:
Tinnitus, A Personal View, that you might like to read:
https://www.tinnitustalk.com/threads/tinnitus-a-personal-view.18668/
Over the years I have read in tinnitus books that the condition is not life threatening, I have heard people say it isn't comparable to any serious medical condition and therefore one should be thankful. With respect to all those people I would like to say this: you have to walk in a person's shoes to know what they are going through, because I believe those statements are incorrect. Once you have been there and done that, then you are able to voice an opinion. It is true, by itself tinnitus is not life threatening but that's not the end of the story.
Anyone suffering with severe intrusive tinnitus, I believe it is comparable to any acute medical condition, simply because of what it is able to do to a person's state of mind. Anti-depressants are sometimes prescribed as treatment for tinnitus. These drugs will not necessarily stop the tinnitus but can help prevent a person from becoming too depressed because of the noise in their head and ears.
It is not often talked about, but people mustn't be under any misconceptions about the depths that this condition can take one to. If tinnitus is left unchecked it has the ability to make a person think and do something irrational that otherwise they wouldn't contemplate if they weren't in such a distressed state. One only has to do a search on Google to find this out. So there lies the paradox.
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