Hi All,
I have posted a separate thread but had a question and wanted your views. I think I may have had tinnitus all of my life, although I am pretty certain that I made it worse in my youth going to the odd nightclub and one particular loud incident that I thought was going to make my head explode at New Year in London (was a rubbish night too).
Obviously tinnitus starts with a physical problem, in so much as you damage something either through noise, infection or something else. This then triggers a reaction in your brain.
In the past six months my T seems to have got louder and more intrusive, but only at certain times, usually when I am in bed or watching TV. When I am occupied, strangely outside I can barely hear it or around other noise, I tend not to notice it. When I am speaking to someone, when I am passively in a conversation I notice it, but when I am engaged and involved I don't. Similarly writing this post, my T is quieter now than it was before I got into my flow and thought process about what to write.
I have in the past suffered with anxiety and depression and many people who post on here seem to have suffered in the past or alternatively as a direct consequence of their T. Others seem to brush T off as nothing but an irritation, perhaps those people are less predisposed to depressions, obsession and everything that comes with it. So to the point:
- Is it plausible that you can make your T louder and quieter by obsessing or not about it? I am definitely going through an obsessive patch, spending times in quiet rooms listening to it when I am in bed etc. I suspect that in reality there is no additional hearing damage but that I am just hearing it more.
- So by definition is there a genuine phsychological solution? I was speaking to an expert the other day who likened T to living by a busy road. After a while you don't hear the traffic any longer because you train your brain not to. So I suppose I am asking is it possible to do the same with T?
I am sorry I am probably asking questions you have heard a million times before. I think this forum is jam packed with some quite inspirational people and I only wish that I was as mentally strong as so many of you appear to be.
Take care,
Chris
I have posted a separate thread but had a question and wanted your views. I think I may have had tinnitus all of my life, although I am pretty certain that I made it worse in my youth going to the odd nightclub and one particular loud incident that I thought was going to make my head explode at New Year in London (was a rubbish night too).
Obviously tinnitus starts with a physical problem, in so much as you damage something either through noise, infection or something else. This then triggers a reaction in your brain.
In the past six months my T seems to have got louder and more intrusive, but only at certain times, usually when I am in bed or watching TV. When I am occupied, strangely outside I can barely hear it or around other noise, I tend not to notice it. When I am speaking to someone, when I am passively in a conversation I notice it, but when I am engaged and involved I don't. Similarly writing this post, my T is quieter now than it was before I got into my flow and thought process about what to write.
I have in the past suffered with anxiety and depression and many people who post on here seem to have suffered in the past or alternatively as a direct consequence of their T. Others seem to brush T off as nothing but an irritation, perhaps those people are less predisposed to depressions, obsession and everything that comes with it. So to the point:
- Is it plausible that you can make your T louder and quieter by obsessing or not about it? I am definitely going through an obsessive patch, spending times in quiet rooms listening to it when I am in bed etc. I suspect that in reality there is no additional hearing damage but that I am just hearing it more.
- So by definition is there a genuine phsychological solution? I was speaking to an expert the other day who likened T to living by a busy road. After a while you don't hear the traffic any longer because you train your brain not to. So I suppose I am asking is it possible to do the same with T?
I am sorry I am probably asking questions you have heard a million times before. I think this forum is jam packed with some quite inspirational people and I only wish that I was as mentally strong as so many of you appear to be.
Take care,
Chris
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