Forgive me if this all seems very "old news." LOL
Ok so I know I shouldn't do this but because of the fear that T might be getting louder I STILL check for it in quiet places. I am checking to see in the quietest area of the house how loud it is.
All the doctors advise against this by the way but it's VERY hard not to ..again because of the fear that it is getting louder.
What I am essentially doing is "training" my brain to listen to it. It's as if I am training my brain to listen to the smallest leaf turn if I were solider in the wilderness or a hunter. NO WONDER that makes it louder. If you were a hunter 1000 years ago in the wilderness you would JUMP if you thought you heard your prey or a lion or whatever even if you were dead asleep in the middle of the night.
The key I think for me is to just stop checking no matter what.
Our brains are so powerful. I know that I gave myself H because of how freaked out I was with the sound of the high frequency of my T. I was picking it up EVERYWHERE and literally magnifying my hearing. In a few days of doing what my doctor said to do "if you think your radio is loud put it a LITTLE louder than what you are comfortable with as long as it's not damaging to your ears." "DO NOT protect your ears unless it would damage them anyway." "keep going out and force yourself to hear the things that are disturbing you." Within DAYS it got so much better. It's because I made myself so hyper aware of noise.
It is kind of terrible but kind of amazing at the same time what we can train ourselves to do. I am hoping to put that energy into something useful!!!
I had my husband and mom go in my "quiet" area of my house (ok lol its the bathroom with the doors closed and the lights off) and both of them could hear a ring in their ear. They said they would drive themselves crazy if they did that 10-15x a day. Another area I do this in is my car.
Don't get me wrong, I don't ONLY hear it in those areas. Every time I am in my house I hear it unless I have lots of noise on or I am distracted. Like right now I have a white noise machine and my air conditioner on and I still hear it in my bedroom (but kind of distracted by typing this). So strange right because I wouldn't outside in seemingly more quietness. I think it's because I have trained my brain to pick it up in the masking frequencies.
Ok end of my rant. I am going to FORCE myself not to listen for this for a while and see what happens.
Ok so I know I shouldn't do this but because of the fear that T might be getting louder I STILL check for it in quiet places. I am checking to see in the quietest area of the house how loud it is.
All the doctors advise against this by the way but it's VERY hard not to ..again because of the fear that it is getting louder.
What I am essentially doing is "training" my brain to listen to it. It's as if I am training my brain to listen to the smallest leaf turn if I were solider in the wilderness or a hunter. NO WONDER that makes it louder. If you were a hunter 1000 years ago in the wilderness you would JUMP if you thought you heard your prey or a lion or whatever even if you were dead asleep in the middle of the night.
The key I think for me is to just stop checking no matter what.
Our brains are so powerful. I know that I gave myself H because of how freaked out I was with the sound of the high frequency of my T. I was picking it up EVERYWHERE and literally magnifying my hearing. In a few days of doing what my doctor said to do "if you think your radio is loud put it a LITTLE louder than what you are comfortable with as long as it's not damaging to your ears." "DO NOT protect your ears unless it would damage them anyway." "keep going out and force yourself to hear the things that are disturbing you." Within DAYS it got so much better. It's because I made myself so hyper aware of noise.
It is kind of terrible but kind of amazing at the same time what we can train ourselves to do. I am hoping to put that energy into something useful!!!
I had my husband and mom go in my "quiet" area of my house (ok lol its the bathroom with the doors closed and the lights off) and both of them could hear a ring in their ear. They said they would drive themselves crazy if they did that 10-15x a day. Another area I do this in is my car.
Don't get me wrong, I don't ONLY hear it in those areas. Every time I am in my house I hear it unless I have lots of noise on or I am distracted. Like right now I have a white noise machine and my air conditioner on and I still hear it in my bedroom (but kind of distracted by typing this). So strange right because I wouldn't outside in seemingly more quietness. I think it's because I have trained my brain to pick it up in the masking frequencies.
Ok end of my rant. I am going to FORCE myself not to listen for this for a while and see what happens.
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