Recent content by Oreilles

It seems to me that you are on the path of success. Habituation does happen relatively quickly (3 weeks for me) but only if there has been a critical mass of work, efforts, time, tears, etc. beforehand. From what I read. you are 90% there. Welcome to the promised land brother. Whatever you have...

Exactly.

You will make it brother, you will. I am married to my high school sweetheart, father of 3, and I still was contemplating the worst. I know - we all do - what you are going through. There is no shame, that's a normal reaction. You will make it, the worst is behind you. CBT worked for me, if it...

That's awesome :-) We beat the beast :-) And everyone can, and will. Believe me, if I did it, *everyone* can and will do it too.

It took some time before the anxiety got better, like a couple of months (maybe a bit less) after I started to see the psychiatrist who treated me for the anxiety with SSRIs and a short course of benzodiazepines. But then, when the meds hit, things went very well very quickly, in like 2 weeks...

I eventually decided to go see a doctor who, seeing that my anxiety was getting out of control, referred me to a psychiatrist. I was afraid at first and concerned to see a psychiatrist, but I had no other options left. Turns out that was indeed exactly what I needed. With proposer medication...

No it took much longer indeed, but the "getting better and better" phase happened in a few weeks. But I think that it is because of the ground work I did before in addressing the anxiety.

Dear fellow ringers. My tinnitus started in 2015. I went through the all too common period of deep anguish, leading to a relatively severe anxiety crisis and depression (for which I got treated). I had it all: the constant ringing, sensitivity to noise, the hyper attention, the feeling of...