I am Confused About Habituation...

Martin that small period where you did not concentrate on the sound to me is a sign that you can eventually habituate. I wish there was a step-by-step guide to help but. It's thame thing but for extended periods. Goodluck martin.

 

I think the same. I had never ear issues, even cannot remember fleeting T.
I had no healthy issues at all.
Then, T (and some other things) started full blast, loud, high-pitched. An explosion in my head. Horror.
So you cannot simply say after a week or month: Hey ok, I now have a dog whistle in my head. So what?
Your whole life is around T and getting rid of it.
Therefore, the best approach as recommended by everyone, is to live life - as difficult as it seems.
The more important other things become, the less important T can be.
Time will do the rest.

 

Thanks my friend.
Yes, when I am on the driving range.
For every ball I play, T is not there.
Besides that I think that our brain/body just needs getting used to it.
A day for me without any masking is a success.

 

Sorry if I use 'habituate'. I only started using the word habituation is when I found this site. Yes there is no time limit and yes there may be setbacks and relapses. There came a time when I was living with 'T'. Next thing I know tens have come and in a relapse. I call those ten years living life. That should be a 'T' sufferer's goal. How does it happen? Time.

 

Hi Ken,
How loud is/was your T you habituated to?
What frequency?
Nevertheless I think one can habituate to loud T.

 

@Martin69 , 24 years ago I was told and I forgot. I consider my T loud! I do not need to know frequency. At its loudest I can't mask it. The goal for me is to adjust to whatever it is.
Ken

 

This post is really helpful. And i completely see that the reaction to the T is the limiting factor to not actively hearing it in myself. My T has decreased in loudness in the last couple weeks. And now I have days where I don't hear it as much as 50-60% of the day. But give me a day where my anxiety flares and I hear it 100% of the time and it causes more anxiety and panic. Its a stupid cycle. Today it is quiet but I'm still being really bothered because of my anxiety. Whereas Monday - Wednesday I had no anxiety and it literally was a non-issue (those days were so amazing!)
Before the onset of my T I had been having prodromes of an onset of a panic attack flare. Then one night in bed the T began. I woke up that night in a panic attack. I honestly think I had the unforunate co-occurence of a loud T flare (i had very mild tinnitus for several years) and the onset of a panic flare. Now I think it's just a matter of separating the anxiety from the T. But as we all know that's no small task.

 

No. It's not a cure because if someone says, "Do you have tinnitus?" or maybe they think about tinnitus, then they will hear it. If you talk about tinnitus to a person without it they won't hear it.

 

Kathi, cullenbo said a mouthful.
I've had T for over 40 years. A year or so ago I came to this forum because I was getting a little nutty about my T. Someone here posted an article about how it is SO important NOT to measure your T. Measure your reaction instead. I've tried many things throughout the decades but nothing worked as well as 'Measuring my response.' It's not about my T anymore, get it? And gladly, it's fading.
Habituation? Well, if I ask myself if I'm habituated, I ask myself if I can hear my T. Yes, I sure can. So I quit listening for it. When it pops into my life, I stop what I'm doing and say, "I hear it, but I'm busy, happy, and I guess today I'm not bothered by it." OR, "I hear it and I want to climb the wall. But I'm happy I didn't hear it till after breakfast." Or something like that. I've found that gauging habituation, listening FOR the T, and just plain worrying about it only makes it worse.
Advice from a 40 year T'er.... Measure your response to your T, not the T. It changes things. This is a pattern of positive action.