Words of Encouragement. About My Habituation, and the Use of My Tinnitus.

Seems like yesterday, when I was dead, at least in my mind, crying in the shoulder of my wife, thinking it was the end.

Well, I was wrong. Was hard to find out the light, to escape from this nightmare, but I did. So you also can.

I'm writing this, because I have been reading a book for the last 2 hours... and my Tinnitus helps me to concentrate... may sound stupid, but it is like that.

When I go to sleep, and everything is quiet, I use my Tinnitus to feel alive... I focus on it, and in a couple of minutes I'm already sleeping.

Habituation does not make the sound disappear. Habituation makes it part of your life. An harmless sound, your partner of life.

Just become friend of your Tinnitus, and everything will settle down, I promise.

Note: My tinnitus is loud enough to hear it inside of an airplane.

Enjoy your Saturday, go take a walk with your Tinnitus. Make peace with it.

The best for all.

 

You See? I'm so relaxed that I thought today was Friday jaja, and it is Monday. Hugs.

 

How did u habituate?
What did u do for sleep

 

Yes! I have been told by specialists: it is your feeling about T that makes it bad. It may not be true for everyone, but I understand what they are saying: when I hear a sound and I think it is in my head, I freak out, but when I learn that it is outside my head, it doesn't bother me that much.

 

For me it is hard to say how I habituate, but I think the key is not caring. Your feeling about T makes it worse. If you think: ''Well, it is just a sound, just like I hear the clock ticking and just like I hear the cars outside", I think you will be less bothered. I think you can get used to the sound of T!

Maybe a silly example, but I remember when I was 9 years old, we would a lot of time hear kids play outside when we were in class. They scream a lot! My teacher said back then: you will get used to it, in a couple of weeks you won't hear it anymore. And she was right. I think it can work in that way for T.

For sleep: just stop caring and freaking out about your T. You can do it!

 

I truly hope that I can get there. I feel like all I hear is this high pitched aching sound in my ear. But hearing your stories give me confidence that I can overcome and habituate as well. I'm really trying.

 

Sure, confidence is fundamental. Chronic Tinnitus does not have a cure yet, but the worst thing is being Chronic Hopelessly, because the more time you are trapped in this snowball of anxiety and depression, without hope, the farest you see a solution. The good news is that lack of hope can be solved. Everyday remember how wonderful is to be alive, that you could have Tinnitus, but you are lucky enough to be alive, to be able to walk, to move, to go to the beach, to have a road trip... thousands of people can't even go out of their home. You can. This kind of thinking helped me ALOT to make the peace with my T.

Regards!

 

Hi khushbu,

How did I habituated:

1) I lived in hell for almost 1 year,

2) I get tired of it and decided to fight back,

3) Started to live my life again, in small increments... enjoying 10 minutes of walking, then a full 2 hour movie, then a full day with my children, then a couple of days, then a week, then a month... this process took me around 6 months.

4) ALOT of positive thinking... I was in a bad situation, T could be a bad thing... but I was alive, I could walk, I could eat, I have healthy chindren, I have a nice house when alot of people don't even hace where to sleep, I can go to the beach, I can swim, I can go to a road trip.

5) Then, Tinnitus suddenly became a background noise.... as annoying as my fridge, sometimes even less than that.

How do I sleep:

Nothing special really, I just go to bed, and I have a super power that, it only take me couple of minutes to fall asleep. Even before Tinnitus.

Other thing, COMPLETE SILENCE has always annoyed me, even before my T. I have always opened a window at night, I need to hear the environment to relax. I do it everynight.

Note: In my worst year, I was able to fall asleep fast, but almost daily I was waking up in the middle of the night... that was completely related with my anxiety... once I habituated, I has never woke up again that way.

Regards!

 

If I have had a stressful day I sit in my lazboy in a quiet room and listen to my T singing its heart out (11kHz) and it puts me into a complete state of relaxation...