Why Is Tinnitus Better After a Night Out Drinking

[Dana]

My mental focus had shifted to stressing about the event,

All I can say is when something takes priority over your thoughts, concern for T it seems can disappear from your active consciousness.

I think I need a new challenge to snap my focus in a new direction again.

So another solution out of this situation is to always have something to distract us/ stress about even more.
That might not be so bad for some kind of personalities, but for the kind of personality that I had before getting T, it's very hard. I practically lost my old self forever and I have to become someone different.

Imagine if you were at the top of a building and a fire broke out, or some other dangerous event was suddenly thrown upon you. Whilst in the thick of that dilemma your absolute main concern would be to plan your escape, and I guarantee your T at this point would be irrelevant, it would leave your conscious thoughts completely.

So I guess we have to live dangerously, on the edge all the time. And I used to be so mellow before T., "contemplative/meditative", if you know the kind. T is the worst condition IMO. AND, to top it off, it's invisible, unless you have money and possibility to put it in evidence with one of those tests (qEEG, f MRI and the like), and you cannot do that all the time, like measuring the blood pressure or the glucose level.

 

[Ed209]

So another solution out of this situation is to always have something to distract us/ stress about even more.
That might not be so bad for some kind of personalities, but for the kind of personality that I had before getting T, it's very hard. I practically lost my old self forever and I have to become someone different.

So I guess we have to live dangerously, on the edge all the time. And I used to be so mellow before T., "contemplative/meditative", if you know the kind. T is the worst condition IMO. AND, to top it off, it's invisible, unless you have money and possibility to put it in evidence with one of those tests (qEEG, f MRI and the like), and you cannot do that all the time, like measuring the blood pressure or the glucose level.

Not necessarily, to me it shows that T can be zoned out when you don't prioritise it and go about your day focusing on other things. My example was more of an extreme one that shows the mind is far more plastic than some of us realise.

It's basically habituation.

 

[Dana]

Not necessarily, to me it shows that T can be zoned out when you don't prioritise it and go about your day focusing on other things.

But you have to focus on other things, don't you? What about the times when we could let our minds free. For me those times are lost. As soon as the seat is free, T comes and takes the central space.

 

[Dana]

Once all that was over, after a month or so I found myself wallowing and going back into toxic thinking which had me on guard again. Then sure enough the T became front and centre all over again.

Interesting quote. So you mean that T became front and center only because you were wallowing and thinking negatively?

 

[Ed209]

But you have to focus on other things, don't you? What about the times when we could let our minds free. For me those times are lost.

I lay in bed all those nights with raging T and it didn't bother me one bit. I really was past it and I did relax a lot in quiet rooms without it effecting me at all.

I think it's down to addressing your reaction to it. Distraction leads to not caring and ultimately that's when the volume drops. It's unlikely that it actually does buts it's the fact that you aren't dwelling on it that makes a huge difference. I don't remember lying there with raging T, I just forgot about it.

I wish I could just flick a switch and get back to that mental state cos I'm like a yo yo. I keep going back and forth like this and I'm hoping I can make the switch permanent.

I reckon you're a lot less likely to be affected by it if you are happy (have things to do/look forward to) then if you are depressed or anxious about the future. Probably the main reason celebrities just brush it aside.

Your mental state is extremely important. One thing I noted from a dirk de Ridder lecture is that people with OCD tend to have a really hard time getting over T because they tune into it like scanning for a station on a radio. He notes that even if there was a physical change making their T quieter it's unlikely to make them feel better because they would still zone in on it. That was a real eye opener for me because I'd say I express some mild traits of OCD.

 

[Dana]

I reckon you're a lot less likely to be affected by it if you are happy (have things to do/look forward to) then if you are depressed or anxious about the future. Probably the main reason celebrities just brush it aside.

Exactly.

 

[Dana]

My main worry is how I will manage with T when I will be old and alone and weak. When the things to look forward to are out of the agenda. That is my scariest thought: getting old with T. Usually society rejects old people, only if they were celebrities once they may visit for an interview, otherwise old people are avoided. I could have spent that time writing or something like that, but this is one of the activities that T can impede a lot.
Any other ideas?

 

[Ed209]

Interesting quote. So you mean that T became front and center only because you were wallowing and thinking negatively?

Exactly that. For weeks at a time I can say that I was 'cured'. Each time it's happened to me I've always wondered why it ever bothered me, that's how beyond caring I have felt at various times. Life became my own again. The problem is that I keep drifting back into my negative mindset and then I make T a big deal again. Once that happens I sit listening to the loud ringing noise again, like tuning in on the radio dial.

It really is just habituation, which we all know is a well known phenomenon.

 

[Ed209]

My main worry is how I will manage with T when I will be old and alone and weak. When the things to look forward to are out of the agenda. That is my scariest thought: getting old with T. Usually society rejects old people, only if they were celebrities once they may visit for an interview, otherwise old people are avoided. I could have spent that time writing or something like that, but this is one of the activities that T can impede a lot.
Any other ideas?

I bet once you've spent a long time habituated it becomes very hard to snap out of it.

 

[Dana]

I bet once you've spent a long time habituated it becomes very hard to snap out of it.

I will put my chips on your number too, otherwise I am so screwed.

 

[Ecip]

Could alcohol thin the blood allowing for better blood flow to the inner ear?
Maybe something like vinpocetine would then possibly also help that individual.