Recent content by Joel

Yeah absolutely Louise. Emotional suppression is like a pressure cooker ;-) And as strange as it may sound, sometimes i really enjoy sadness, sorrow, anger ..etc. (like in art form for example..films , music ...visual art ..etc) I guess i was focusing on those "negative loops" that we can...

Hey Terry I know this post is about mourning the loss of silence, but I gotta say man.... you are doing great! When we first spoke about a month or so ago you seemed to really be in a tough place without a hopeful plan to move forward and now look at you. Getting things done .. eating well...

Haha! Same thing happened to me last week. Walked into a club and realized my earplugs were missing after I was already in ..had to endure a 30 minute set from a band with a talented, but wailer of a singer .. The only thing that was helpful was knowing that I can recover from this. I think...

Thanks Erik! YEah I've learned to get a better seal now by twisting them in a little. They seem to be doing their job. I guess i really need to stand in front of my Amp with an SPL meter to see exactly how load my normal stage volume is. Then if the 15's can bring down the DBs to below 80 I...

Hey Erik did you get the 25db inserts or the 15's? I just got mine (from a different company) and got the 15's ... it doesn't feel like much protection at all and I'm a little worried to get in front of an amplifier with them (the doc was out when i picked them up so i could not get more info)...

Thx again Calin!

Man this is exactly how I felt in the beginning! Fortunately I'm getting better at living with this every day so I'm able to mix and make music again. Thanks for posting this Calin!

Glad you like!

I am enjoying this one at work right now but this channel/poster has a ton of great nature masking videos (1hr or more each)

Thx Emma!! I guess i am trying to figure out if I am habituating or if the supplements are calming things down. Ultimately it doesn't matter as long as things are getting a little better. I will probably keep taking the supplements anyway. Extra Zinc and Ginseng are still pretty useful...

Thx Mario. Just doing the best i can really. I was really thrown off though for a couple of months. Not used to being that upset for a such an extended period like that. I just wonder that if I discontinue the use of the supplements I'm taking, if that would effect my "progress"

I've had a false alarms before (ringing subsided only to come back) but for the last week or so things seemed to have calmed down a little. I still have the ring for sure, but its much more in the background and I am no longer having hyperacusis attacks every day (only once this week...

Hey Jim. Thx for everything!

Yeah I totally do this now. I was online reading some news about how our city mayor (New York city) was going to spend $250k on a new awareness campaign to educate teenagers on the dangers of using earbuds/headphones too loud. ALL of the comments we rants on how it was such a waste of money ...

I was shape shifter .. musicians, jocks, the smokers/leather jacket crew, nerds, band nerds, rednecks, gangstas ... etc. I hung out with em all. I was so into music at the time and played in bands all throughout high school so my gtr got me into many social circles ;)