CBT for Hearing Distortion

Dear Dr Hubbard

Thank you for sharing your own frank and inspiring story. It has taken me a lot of courage to post this as I find my own situation so distressing but your words have helped enormously.

A month ago I was using a hammer to break up some old (hard plastic) computer discs - just a few blows but stupidly it didn't occur to me to protect my ears.

I now have one ear with some tinnitus, some HF frequency loss and sound distortion (at loudish volumes) particularly if I'm in a hard, acoustically reflective environment.

My question is whether CBT can help me habituate to the distortion - which worries me far more than the tinnitus.

Thank you for your time.
Aldo

 

Yes Aldo, the same strategies used to help accept and habituate to tinnitus apply to sound distortion. The distortions were the scariest part for me as well. I occasionally notice them but without the fear and despair.
Dr Hubbard