Hello everyone.

Hello everyone,
My name is Clive. I am living in North East England UK. I have just found this forum and very much impressed by the set up. Maybe in the future I can tell a little bit more about the work I do here. Let me just say that for the moment I provide management and support to clients in north-east England to help them come to terms and habituate to their tinnitus. I am semi retired so this is a part-time activity but I really enjoy it. I look forward to talking to members of the forum in the future.
Best wishes,
Clive

 

Hello Markku,
Thank you for you reply. Yes I am very lucky to be a tinnitus therapist. The reaction you describe "nothing can be done ............etc" is one that many of my clients report when I first see them. I always make it clear that I have no magic pill -which is what they really want. But I inform them that I can offer a management and support service. I don't tell them that I have tinnitus but people are pretty clever and usually ask me after a while. They take great heart from the fact that I soon have to tell them that I have fully habituated to the extent that tinnitus has no effect on my life style. Of course they find this hard to believe at first as I would have done in the first stages. Next I tell them that what worked for me won't necessarily work for them. But by this time I have their attention and they are willing to start slow process of recovery. I meet with clients weekly at first and the habituation therapy I provide is a mixture of one-to-one counselling and sound therapy. Anyway may be more of this later.
Best wishes,
Clive

 

Can you ever really habituate? I have had Tinnitus in my right ear now for over five years as a result of audible trauma. I find that my mind seems to focus on this most of the time. I think loudness must be a very important factor, because the louder it is the more difficult it is to ignore it. Would other sufferers not agree. CC.