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Sure; ailments which are self-limiting or can be adequately controlled through meds are not really what I meant by "serious illness". There are lots, and lots, and lots of terrible maladies for which modern medicine has no answer.

This is one possibility. The other possibility is that you, as someone relatively young and up until this point relatively healthy, have never had to grapple with a serious, severe health problem before and don't really have a concept of what that means.

She's pretty deadset against giving me any pills, but then again I'm the one with the demonstrated track record of dependence on benzo medications, so...

It's bizarre, isn't it? I seem to flip flop "in and out" of habituation, which is weird. Last week I had a tearful day and could think of nothing else... tonight I played a competitive card game in a quiet room for three hours straight and barely thought about it. The mind is powerful!

On subject here, too - my very ill sister recently told me (with a laugh) that she did the math to know that she has enough drugs on hand to off herself, and derives some satisfaction from knowing that even though she'd never do it. I quoted Nietzche, "the thought of suicide has gotten me...

Okay, NOW you fully have my attention. I am very curious what you mean by this. Feel free to PM me if you'd rather discuss out of the thread :D

I'd ask if you're my wife but I'm pretty sure she doesn't have tinnitus :D

Er, you might want to re-read the post you quoted, because I think vincent was actually suggesting that there ARE ways to deal with it... Look at the paragraphs after the one you quoted here :) things are impossible until someone does them, after that they are just interesting, and then...

It's hard for me to see, too - on the other hand, the list of things I'm fine with now that I wouldn't have believed when I was 20, is not inconsiderable, and seems to grow daily. I realized the other day -- and this is probably worth making into its own thread at some point -- that I actually...

Yup, I'm with you -- though I would caution against going too hard on the meditative side. I think that really intense meditative practices have about the same potential to fuck you up, as taking LSD or something. I've read that it's not uncommon for kundalini practicioners to end up in psych...

we're on the same page, brother -- check this out: http://www.mindovermenieres.com/a-new-approach-for-treating-tinnitus/ interesting idea, no?

I don't think it's real healthy for me to be reading these threads right now, as I've noticed a radical uptick in the amount of time I've spent thinking about suicide in the past week, so I'm going to skip out on them, but I guess in summary I'd just say that on some level I'm stubborn and want...

I totally agree with you that T and phantom pain have a lot in common, having read way too much about the subject. But, that doesn't change my opinion about anything else I've written here. I have a close relative who has lived with a pretty awful chronic pain problem for a long time; in fact...

sort of depends on what fetishes you're in to, eh? :D This paragraph makes me think you're not really understanding what people are trying to communicate. NO ONE IS SAYING THAT THIS SUFFERING IS NOT REAL! What people are trying to tell you is that the suffering can be ameliorated, even if the...

Life: tinnitus, but also sex, motorcycles, beer, long hikes in hills Death: unknown, but probably none of the above