habituation

[deltec]

any boday using habituation for there tinnitus and if so is it working could some boday explain please what do I need for habituation

[abic77]

Hi there-so sorry youre struggling but firstly, you WILL habituate and you need to be patient.

Some people recommend masking sounds but I had intensive CBT for my T and learnt to stop fighting it and allowing it in and eventually we coexist together. Would I rather it go? Yes! But I can now listen to it, say hello and tell it how damn annoying it is and then accept it and think about something else.

Tinnitus can’t hurt you, i would recommend watching Julian Cowen Hill on YouTube. He’s literally been a godsend to me and will educate you on your T and how to habituate.

I’m having a bit of a spike at the moment but I just keep reminding myself of what I’ve learnt over the 4 years since it started and I’m ok with it now and you will be too.

In summary, 4 tips:

- acknowledge and accept it

- stop fighting it (this increases anxiety which will feed it and you get caught in a loop)

- tell yourself it can’t hurt you

- Julian cowen hill

All the best and let me know how you get on

Abi

[deltec in reply to abic77]

it stoped the other day then came back owell im doing a lot of walking iv been to the solicter to make a claim to work I wotked on the highways for 37 years thanks

[jabbjinx]

Good Morning from a locked down South Africa ....i am prone to be more of a reader than a responder in these forums but I do hope to encourage you this morning....I am not sure where you are in your T journey and would like to say right off the bat...not everyone's habituation process is the same .... For me ...I had the same responsesto T as I imagine most newbies have....complete panic and fear of going out of my mind and not being able to cope with the sound in my head for an eternity and as a result... I spent an obsessive amount of time looking for a cure .....going for the CT's. getting to know my ENT and audiologist ...HOWEVER I kept seeing in all the T forums I visited....a couple of seasoned Tsuffers saying the same thing.....give it a bit of time and your mind will adjust...so i decided to make a point of helping my mind adjust....spending 5 minutes a day in a quiet environment...lights out ....just me and my T and to listen to the sound and telling myself that this was a part of who I am...that this sound is not my enemy....i made a point of listening to different tones of T on YouTube telling myself i could live with these .....i made sure that I tried as best as possible not to mask the sound of the T with other sounds...always playing music or TV at below the sound level of my T forcing my brain to choose what to listen to.....every lunch hour at work....I took my mat and spent 30 minutes doing (n my case , Christian), meditation.........my panic and fear subsided as I started to make peace with it and literally 2 months in and my T faded into the back ground and life resumed.....there are days when the sound reasserts itself in new ways and extra pops and zings announce themselves and its always there if I choose to concentrate on it ...and yes as I get a little older it is getting louder but my brain just tunes it out .....now I know this may not sit well with everyone out there...but it is my experiences and has been what has worked for me....I hope somehow this brings you some assistance in your journey toward habituation.

As a side note....a fellow suffer who is possible.on this forum..... told me that it was after an almost debilitating battle with his T for over a YEAR.... that he went to a physiotherapist who told him he had no solutions for him but asked that he try make peace with it and suggested he remove all possible distractions... by getting into a bath and putting off the lights and submergeing himself under the water and listening to his T ......he said it was doing this daily that caused his brain to switched the sound to a background noise.

BLESSINGS!!

[deltec in reply to jabbjinx]

Hi mate what was the cause of ur tinnitus

[deltec in reply to jabbjinx]

yes it seems to be working for me thank u again how u coping with the lock down in south africia regards

[Vibe19]

Research would suggest you habituate in a year - so I was concerned when I hadn’t - probably the only benefit from seeing an audiologist - is that she said some take longer. I have got used to the constant sound and it doesn’t stop me living my life. It is perhaps now that I find the balance aspect more challenging

[Tilyusa]

Hi Deltec, I did a video on Friday that talks about habituation. I hope it helps.

Best,

Sean

youtu.be/2pno3MpOKeE(Not working as expected?)