Hey, I got T a month after you got it.
Nice to hear your dealing with it by not caring anymore. Im still afraid that im going to be afraid like when it just started for me. But then again I can sleep well now if I want. Then again im somewhat afraid im going to be afraid of it flairing up again. Kinda odd. Then again its mostly not much of an issue for me at the moment.
If you have action-step, book, meditation, life philosophy or something that got you to where you are I would be interessted to hear it.
For now, I just hope for another night in which im not in the mental headspace I was in when it started, and then tomorrow, same thing and onwards. Like I stop carring after I wake up, then when the end of the day comes im still not completely over it. Anyways, great to hear your over it. Do take care.
Hey John,
For me it, as cliched as it sounds, I just tried occupying my time with other things, rather than just sit around worrying. I was declining to do really anything that involved me leaving my house. Since that was where I was mentally, I figured that I needed to find a way to occupy my time within my own house and not just constantly searching about tinnitus and worrying about sleeping. As strange as it sounds, I got into speedrunning on the nintendo 64, which required me to find an old CRT television. CRT's emit like a tinnitus sounding like hum when its on. I partially attribute this to my habituation, but playing N64 in my room like a nerd got me involved with also watching people do the same thing on Twitch, so not only was I distracted by the game itself and the hum, but I also began talking to people in the chatrooms and talking to the streamers themselves, which in turn boosted my confidence that I could talk to people, because as I said, all I was doing was sitting around worrying, and that worry spread to other parts of my life, such as the social aspect.
Finally, after about a month of playing N64, I started really hanging out with my friends again, and bringing people together who didn't know each other, and that keeps happening and I keep meeting more and more people. I mentioned I had tinnitus once to them offhand, only for a few of them to also talk about how they had it but they eventually just learned to forget about it, which made me feel really good.
I know that T can be really bad for people but I really think its a mental thing. Like when I realized I had it, I was in a bad place regarding things that weren't T, and T just elevated everything and made it worse. Now that I have friends I hang out with almost daily, a job again, my hobbies back, things to look forward to, and people to meet, I've just told myself to let whatever happens to you happen.
Sorry I just rambled on, but thats what I honestly helped me in getting over it, thus far.
Good luck John, I know you can do it.
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