Has Tinnitus Changed Your World View?

You can interpret World View however you want, from politics to religion to what ice cream you buy. It doesn't matter. Not sure this is the right section for this thread.

My views (and habits) have markedly changed since acquiring tinnitus 6-7 months ago:

1. I was well into watching political programmes about Brexit and what would happen. Soon as tinnitus arrived, I haven't watched one and I didn't even know there was an election in the UK until it had taken place and my wife told me. She isn't even a UK citizen. Politics doesn't interest me in the slightest.

2. I was always interested in the military. But now it has no place in my life. Men with guns don't interest me. War is f**ked! But wars will keep taking place.

3. I will never trust a doctor again or the medical community as a whole. I learned too late that actually doctors know very little and are held in way too high esteem. And that doctors and medicine have little, if anything, to do with HEALTH. Medicine is a racket. Doctors are overpaid drug dealers.

4. As well as not trusting doctors, I now don't trust anyone anymore. Not a single person. Sad as it seems. Human beings are an untrustworthy bunch at best and many have only their own interests at heart. Of course, there are exceptions.

5. I have been way too naive about how the world works. It's all economics. Nothing else gets a look in. NOTHING!

6. We are led by psychopaths. I knew this already, but it has been brought to the fore more.They are ALL psychos. We are nothing but pawns in their game.

There are more, but that's enough for now.

Another pointless thread for another pointless Saturday with tinnitus.

 

Ugh. Except for number 2 (Never had much interest in the military as a topic), I find this all too relatable.

 

Another I would add is 7. I now see the wood and not the trees, whereas before I I was lost in the detail and missing the big picture. Although many of the ones I already losted can fit into this group.

 

Having to deal with T suddenly gave me a lot of respect for people who are chronically ill. I never realised what it means to be imprisoned in your own body, with no way to get any relief. And that's while I seem to be one of the cases where it might eventually disappear, which gives me quite a positive view on the future. I don't want to know what it's like when things are even worse. Slightly related:

Though I can't say I completely stopped trusting the medical community, T gave me a much more realistic view on how (some) specialists work. Nothing worse then having your symptoms dismissed or ignored and having to fight both your body ánd the doctor for a proper diagnosis...

 

Tinnitus hasn't changed my worldview; it has confirmed my world view.

My distrust of doctors increases every time a doctor harms someone I know. The more I learn about the medical industry, the more I distrust it. I learned that the goal of medicine is to treat illnesses, not cure them. Never ending treatments = never ending cash flow.

Tinnitus has also increased my natural misanthropy. Why are sound levels known to cause tinnitus still allowed? Sirens, alarms, etc need to be loud, but not so loud they destroy ears.

Tinnitus stole from me something I love: concerts. And I don't want to hear people tell me I can go to a concert with plugs in my ears. I want to tell those people to go to a restaurant with a gag in their mouths or go to an art museum with a blindfold.

 

100% this! Having tinnitus has been even more reassurance that doctors are absolutely terrible and are not to be trusted.

It’s all about money and selling poison that will continue to make us sicker leading to more money for them and the pharmaceutical industry.

No one actually cares to help.

I had a surgery for an unrelated issue in July - 6 months after seeing 3 SPECIALISTS and one GP all of Who misdiagnosed me, gave me medication that made me worse, and one of whom did enough physical damage that probably lead to the surgery. You would think doctors at research universities would be competent - here’s looking @ you UCSF.

Saw two ENT’s neither of whom gave me any sort of advise as to what is damaging to the ears. Thankful for this site or else I probs would have continued furthering my ears with headphones and concerts.

 

1) I also have less respect for doctors. If they do not know how to understand people who have T then they should refer me elsewhere.

2) I used to want to get old and retire someplace quiet in the country. Now I'm really thinking a loud city would be ok or above a bar.

3) This problem overwhelms any other problems I might have been concerned about in my life.

4) With my wife, I would totally understand if she didn't want to be with me anymore. I feel like I'm a shell of who I used to be.

 

As if.../I wish that were the case, but I am afraid it isn't.