by Thomas Altmann » Fri Dec 24, 2021 10:47 am
Hi Siete Leguas,
I guess Jorge is the one to answer your questions most competently.
Until then, let me tell you that for long I have had tinnitus, too, and it became considerably more obtrusive since my mother's death last year, which meant a lot of work and responsibility in addition to the emotional stress.
My experience, which is anything but clinical, has given me the impression that the tinnitus that you get from exposure to loud noise or music may come from a stress for your ears, but is, depending on the volume, temporary. A persistent tinnitus seems to be a neurological misinformation that tells your brain that there is something when there is actually nothing. Whether this originates in the hearing organ or the respective brain area, I don't know. But I'm pretty sure it comes rather from general stress or overload in your life than from stress on your ears (noise).
Telling from my experience, the more I retract myself from an active life or work, and the more I feel isolated and being left on my own, which is a typical phenomenon in our current Corona situation of social distancing, lockdowns etc, the more I sense the body that I inhabit (or caught inside), and every sensory signal may tower up to a frightening pain. But that's not normal, and it's unhealthy. What helps me, is to become active and to perceive myself as the center of my action, and turning or adverting my senses to the outside. Listen to the sounds of the world around you and connect with the outside as the agent of your own projects and endeavours. To me, this rather meant playing my drums (and then returning to the state of rest and calmness afterwards), as opposed to avoiding the noise associated with drumming altogether.
I also try to accept my tinnitus as my own, personal sound that belongs to me. But I actually have to remind myself to hear it. Normally, I just don't pay attention. I listen to the other sounds around me.
Most importantly, don't panic!
Greetings,
Thomas
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Thomas Altmann on Fri Dec 31, 2021 10:30 am, edited 1 time in total.