Just like a joke eventually stops being funny, eventually these memories will stop causing an emotional reaction for you. It could take 6 months or even longer, but you will get there.
Have you experienced Any improvement compared to how you felt 6 months ago?
@Bill Bauer I really hope so. My anxiety has basically taken ahold of my life. I don't feel like I'm living, I've had to turn down a job. I just want it to go back to baseline, I had already habituated and was rarely thinking about it. At this point I'm really just hoping that this spike subsides with time. I just want some sort of normalcy back.
I have days where I can mentally cope with it better than others, today is one of those doom and gloom days where I'm just finding it hard to even be optimistic.
@weab00 Basically that is how it was. No care in the world and we had no idea what kind of damage we were doing. I feel like the education system failed us in a way as well, no one ever tells you about tinnitus or hyperacusis.
Before I thought the worst that could happen would be that you would just go deaf, but this only happened to veterans and people who suffered really severe noise traumas. Didn't think it was possible through ear plugs and concerts.
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