Comments on Profile Post by sirhand

With T I would HATE to work in a completely silent office. I love to have some low level music playing while I work, cause it masks the T a little. Just 5 minutes in silence with T feels like I am going crazy.

@sirhand That's how I felt before my severe T.

@TheDanishGirl It took me a moment to recognize your new name! I feel like I'm torturing myself, but I try to spend my day in silence. I stupidly feel that I should become accustomed to my T. Then I crack and turn on the TV or something to break it up.

The only reason I have T is because I was trying to drown out the music in the office with my headphones. So now I want silence so that I can listen to headphones at super low volume. Also I don't want to hear the same songs over and over again.

Anyone can listen to anything that want at any time without imposing it on anyone else with headphones so I don't see why we would play music on speakers.

I never really liked to listen to music on headphones unless I really had to. At one place we worked we made a play list of over a 1,000 songs so that the repeat wouldn't happen often.

I listen to podcasts 99% of the time. But music is what did my ears in.

Well it is what caused my T too, but that does not mean one cant listen to music anymore. Music is not dangerous, loud volume is. Without music life wouldnt be worth living for me.

I love music and still listen. But music that is not my choice annoys and distracts me. And I would never make anyone else listen to my choice of music because they would hate it. And my anxiety would go through the roof.

@sirhand I agree that one shouldnt force others to listen to their music. I would never play music at my office desk if my co workers had something against it. Lucky for me, they don't .

If I could use headphones I would. But I have noise induced T and it is advised that one does not use them, even at low volume when you have noise induced T, because it can make the T worse. So I only have the option of listening to music through speakers now.

Mine was a head injury and jaw, so I kept using my headphones. Never bothered it. Even after the T went crazy I still use them. I quit for about 4 months because I thought the new loudness and spikes were due to them.

Makes no difference. Even the few quieter T periods I was using headphones. I just do like I always do and never listen to them too loud. I have a certain level that I never let them go over.