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@@michaelreisman5695 hey Michael! I won’t be providing therapy, however i do want to provide mentoring sessions which i’ve spoken about to hear how people like you are going as a listening ear as someone who gets it and talking about the things that have helped me in my journey and how they could possibly help you as well if you chose to apply them to yourself! Im only just back from my trip and so it’s all in the works. I’ll keep you updated!
one thing that I told myself in the beginning of my journey to stop looking at tinnitus as a threat was to try to look at tinnitus like your nose its always there but most of the time you can’t see it because your brain decides to ignore it because it doesn’t see it as anything important and thats what people with tinnitus need to do look at less as a threat and more of a everyday background noise and accept to live with it and eventually your brain will look at it like your noise and begin to ignore it and most of the time you wont even hear unless you try to hear it on purpose much like looking at your nose
Thank you for the personal and candid video discussion about this. It’s needed, and hopeful. Tinnitus distress can also be trauma, and an opportunity to take care of ourselves in a self compassionate way, maybe beyond other experiences we’ve had to overcome. I agree with you, we need to move away from focusing on the ringing, and instead towards our internal self and deal with the cognitive thoughts, distortions, and automatic thinking due to our brain caught up in flight and fight - get back to focusing on Life. The brain will need time, and since none of us are going anyway, learn new relaxation and life changing skills along the way. I’m in my 4 month of treatment with treblehealth in the US and use maskers, sound therapy, and CBT, Acceptance (ACT), and psycho therapy because I’m a very sensitive person and need the support and did not hesitate to reach out. Others’ may not need as much. I’m doing much better now and finally moving towards the 3rd stage of habituation, moving away from a couple of months of anxiety. All of this is our natural process. Love and support yourself and receive it from others. You’re allowed. Peace. I think too, it could be helpful if you mention those wonderful books in your video.
Do they only work with people in the US still?. I am trying to work with them but its difficult to get in touch with them. I am using white noise sound generators but it's making one of my quieter sounds louder.
I was able to beat my tinnitus by fasting. Had tinnitus for 4 long stressful years. Tinnitus is a symptom of something else going on. The best tool to fix your body is your body. God bless! 🙏
Its become the norm for me and from the moment i realised that, my brain became bored and got used to it. Now when i hear it i dont get the emotional response that i used to. Its like all the other chronic conditions i or other people may have, you have no choice but to live with it. The other option isnt worth thinking about. Thanks for the hope and positive content you're giving sufferers of T, especially the newcomers to the condition ❤
Thank you for sharing and your kind words! It’s amazing that you are at a point of not having the emotional reaction to it, i think thats the hardest part to overcome. 🤗
@CateB66 Hi Cate, I habituated to it about two years after the first onset. I went from trying everything I could to then just getting on with life. Don't get me wrong it's still there, and every now and again I'll get a spike where I think wow that's loud but I know it'll return to the level that I can handle. I wholeheartedly wish and pray that you're one of the lucky ones like myself, who've been able to get used to it and carry on with life without it taking over your thoughts 24/7. Positive thoughts sent to you, you can beat this 💯👌
I have it for about 15y + now. I tuned it out way to the background. Recently it got louder. It comes in cycles and what you already said it has (almost) everything to do with stress. I’m glad I found your channel. Let’s all stay positive.
Hi Alice I am so thankful that I found you. I assume you are living in Australia, as I do. So hard to find someone in Australia. My journey started in April 2020, all that you went and going through is what is happening to me. Any chance of communicating to you to get some help as I am suffering and would love to progress to heal.🙏
thanks for making content like this, as I have mentioned to you in a previous comment on another video you have made, my journey with tinnitus started suddenly 2 months ago. I found out it was an ear infection with fluid behind my eardrum. Since finding videos on tinnitus and your content, that brings hope instead of doom and gloom. I've been slowly habiuating to it. I'm noticing a change in the volume, that it is becoming softer and more in the background, when I don't rest well or stressed the volume changes and becomes louder. I catch myself trying to notice if the ringing has went away then I hear it again. I'm trying to pull myself away from looking for the tinnitus, not successful yet. Your content brings hope to me and I thank you. I look foward to all your future videos.
Thank you so much for sharing. That makes me so incredibly happy to hear and honestly makes the time and effort put into making these videos worth it. I will keep posting videos for people like yourself that can hopefully provide hope and we can find healing together! You will overcome this. ❤️
Gracias por compartir positivamente tu experiencia con el tinnitus y ayudarnos a aceptar nuestra situación con tiempo y no dejar de hacer las cosas que nos gustaban antes de todo eso😊
Beautiful ❤❤❤ I hope you are doing well! Im glad you are habituating to it! For myself as well it was a process to habituate to it and accept it the first couple of months, but trust me when i tell you it gets better! It gets better than better! Sending my love to you and if you ever need anything i am here! ❤❤❤ Have a great day :) ❤❤❤
@@JHOPEUNIVERSE218 Mine also started after ear infection.. how are you now ?? Is it still that noticeable or can you ignore it completely?? Please reply 🙏🏻
Thanks for making this video. I got T 2 months ago with no root cause just woke up with it and no hearing loss. Periodic. Bad, mild, good 0 T days. I still can't accept it and struggling because I feel like if I find the root cause then I can fix it. This is the hard part accepting something that could be reversible once root cause is found but doctors are useless here so far.
Stay strong ❤ Do not lose hope! Do not give up! Even when it seems all is lost, do not give up! You got this! Trust the universe will give you the answer at the exact perfect time; on their time table! You are so powerful! ❤ Stay strong and do not give out! Sending my love and power to you! ❤❤❤
@@DaisyDebsStay strong ❤ You’ve got this! Ive had tinnitus for a year and a half and i can honestly say that right now in this moment, with everything going on in my life, good and bad, with tinnitus, i am the happiest i have ever been. If you were to tell me this when i first got it, i would’ve told you to get lost. It did not come easy. It was a whole process. Months on end. But it was worth it in the end! So for a more positive story, here it is :) I hope you are doing well and i hope you know how powerful you are! ❤ Do not lose hope and keep believing in yourself! Youve got this! If you ever need anything, i am here! Have a great day :) ❤❤❤
stay strong ive had tinnitus for 3 years just like alice and honestly its a normal things to me now most of the time I never hear it always try to remind yourself that it isn’t harmful as you do this it will begin to rewire your brain to realize that it isn’t a threat and begin to ignore it by looking at it like a non threat your brain will leave the panic mode that we implement by looking at it as harmful which leads to anxiety, scaredom etc. and it will slowly rewire to ignore the sound as it doesn’t deem the sound important.
The mindset that I've built in order to overcome tinnitus it's thinking that is normal. We all were born listening to it. So if you can see it like that you will start ignoring it, and it's not a bad idea to do it consciously as well. I've had it when I was anxious. My anxiety triggered my tinnitus and when I searched for tinnitus I started listening even more... So I realized, the more conscious you are about this natural sounds the more you will hear them. I'm pretty sure everything is psychological. It's because we have told our brain that there's something wrong that our brain has focused on it. My tinnitus has just started 5 days ago... And frankly I don't wanna brag, but I'd say that currently I don't hear it 90% of the time (when I started researching information I'd hear it more than 40% of the time). I think it's part of ourselves and I'm not talking in a positive way, I really mean it, we were born with it. Greetings. Your videos really helped me, now I'm more hopeful. ❤❤ I wanna add that I've read several stories of people talking about how overcoming anxiety made them overcame tinnitus. Because tinnitus it's just a symptom it's not the cause itself. And I wouldn't say that it works because I'm in an anxious environment so it's not possible to me to talk from my perspective. Maybe you've noticed but my main language is not English, my main language is Spanish and I've seen some videos from a guy who has been on television shows and such, he says the same as you, you shouldn't fear tinnitus, and you shouldn't pay attention to tinnitus, but he also says, tinnitus might be a symptom of anxiety not a disease. In conclusion if you can relax your nervous system and if you can ignore tinnitus and see it as something normal, your brain will kick tinnitus out to the background. And it makes sense. I felt tinnitus because of my anxiety, and I got obsessed from what I read on internet. It's like saying, don't think of a pink elephant, you will think of it...
Thank you for sharing and taking the time to write your comment. I completely understand everything that you are saying and i agree! The more you focus on it, the more your brain will bring it into your awareness. We need to find ways to focus on other things, to bring balance and joy back into our lives. I know that working on my anxiety and deeper emotional wounds and patterns is ultimately what helped me to heal and overcome tinnitus. Wishing you all the best!
I officially hit 3 years with tinnitus last month and it really hit me how I went from always panicking always getting scared always feeling anxious to not caring about it at all yes at times it comes back but like you said I dont have the same emotional responde to it anymore I got used to it about 1 year into it as well
Thank you for sharing your story! I am glad that you don't have the same emotional response to it now. It can be really tiring when you get stuck in that state! Wishing you all the best :)
I’m sorry to hear that. It can be incredibly difficult and take time to find healing and be able to overcome it. Just know that one day, you will overcome this like many others have including myself. It’s 100% possible, it’s just a matter of time and focusing on certain aspects of yourself and your life. ❤️
Sending my love to you ❤❤❤ You are so powerful you dont even know it! The life you are going to live is going to be way beyond your dreams! Its in your hands, and i know youve got this. Dont give up. ❤❤❤
Hi Alice! Glad to hear you’re coping well. Thanks a lot for sharing hope here! May I know what do you usually do or tell yourself when an anxiety attack comes? Often when you’re trying to calm yourself down, you ended up with hearing more of your tinnitus and you’re stuck in the loop. It feels harder to get out of this tinnitus-anxiety loop once you got into it😢
what I always tried to remind myself was that this was just another thing that makes me unique and that God is putting me through God will never put you through anything you can’t handle :)
Hi Alice, have you some hearing loss too? I've tinnitus and hyperacusis with some hearing loss. I think it's more difficult to heal tinnitus if it's associated with hearing loss and it's severe. I observed that people who managed to overcome or habituate to tinnitus have no hearing loss generally
Hey there! I haven’t had my hearing tested in a while, therefore i can’t say for sure now regarding any hearing loss. However from what i have learned, no matter what the cause is for tinnitus - with the right mindset and effort/practices to overcoming tinnitus which are unique to each person, is it possible for everyone. It doesn’t mean that everyone will achieve it, that depends on each person. ☺️
Stay strong ❤ I got tinnitus about a year and a half ago and i got my hearing tested as well and my audiologist told me there was a dip in my hearing. You are not alone. I recently got a spike as well with tinnitus. All this being piled up really took me down a deep deep deep whole. But i just knew this wasnt the end. That my life was not about to be only this. And im telling you this is true for you too! Stay strong do not give up! Now when i go to loud settings, concerts, clubs, etc. i use ear protection, as i feel everyone should, tinnitus or not. Invest in good ear protection! It takes time for all this to happen. Its a whole process to overcome tinnitus and hearing loss. But its not impossible. Youve got this! I can honestly say that at this very moment, i am the happiest i have ever been, even before tinnitus! It was a blessing in disguise. It guides me to be more patient, to manage my emotions, and to be more compassionate. Again it was a whole process for this and it DID NOT come quickly. If you were to tell me this when i first got it last year, i wouldve told you to get lost. Dont give up on yourself. Do this for you. I am here if you ever need anything! ❤❤❤
@antonioramirez6850 My main hobby was seeing bands and I always wore ear protection. Do you get a spike when you see bands after?. Do you go often?. I used to ho regularly so I can't meet with friends now either.
What exactly was your diagnosis like what caused your tinnitus? it’s usually a symptom of something, noise or from hearing loss. I understand it’s faded into the background but you must’ve had a volume drop. Not everyone can get used to loud tinnitus or tinnitus you can actually feel in your ears.
Hey! There are many causes of tinnitus and everyone definitely differs! Mine began from fluid in my ears and was extremely loud, i could barely hear anything else for a while. I was in an incredibly anxious state in my life at the time as well and therefore i feared the sound so much and struggled with it emotionally and lacked coping mechanisms, that it created this negative feedback loop of latching onto the sound which a lot of people experience. Only once i started to work on my anxiety levels and aspects of my life/beliefs, it got gradually better overtime. I know people who get tinnitus that can come and go because they don’t latch onto it or worry about it. From what i have learned from experts in the field, everyone has internal tinnitus sounds naturally 24/7, its just about whether our brains filter it out or not and therefore the focus on tinnitus and whether we can hear it or not is what makes the neural pathways in our brain strengthen it and can make it chronic/louder over a longer period of time which is what is very hard to unlearn for many, regardless of the cause. I have had loud tinnitus on and off over a long time and the volume would always change and not be consistent. It is always the loudest when i am anxious, run down or something feels out of balance. I have also had many other symptoms with tinnitus like popping sounds, sound sensitivity and more. I do believe that many people can overcome tinnitus with the right mindset, whether that means that they don’t hear it at all anymore/most of the time or they get to a point where the sound doesn’t bother them and lessens even a little bit which makes it more manageable due to honing in on on self work and better coping strategies and finding what they enjoy in life for more balance! ☺️
Could you hear it all the time like above the TV or when you were out and in the car etc?. I can hear mine all the time its so loud and it's really getting me down.
Stay strong ❤ You will get through this! I too myself could hear it all the time but as i habituated and as i really did the work, it would go more and more and more in the background til the point i can have a conversation, eat dinner with my family, be out in public, etc. and not hear it. Do not lose hope! You’ve got this! It is a process. So do not give up! I am here for you! ❤❤❤
It can be hard at first, however i just found that i was able to over time after focusing on self work, focusing on other things and accepting the sound/removing my fear and focus from it as much as possible and engaging in mindfulness practices. I can make a video about this!
For a while i would not like reading at all, now i read every single day and enjoy it every single time. Its a process of working on yourself and getting rid of the fear of tinnitus, as Alice says. What helped me was videos on youtube of personal growth from people like Wayne Dyer to Tony Robbins. Do not give up! You are so powerful! As she alice says as well, healing from tinnitus is different for everyone. Once you find your way, you will start to see that you are are not feeling the heaviness of it as much. Then day by day, week by week, month by month, its going to get better and better and better. Do not give up! ❤❤❤
@alicemoyle What sort of noises do you have? I have ciucades, grinding metal, fire alarms in the right ear and the left instead of the fire alarm I have white noise all as equally irritating.
Yes i do! I don’t limit myself in any way due tinnitus anymore. I just now wear earplugs at loud events like a concert for example to protect my hearing.
@@susy841me personally I still go to concerts parties etc. and it does come with a negative atleast for me where after the party concert etc my tinnitus shoots up and depending on how long I was exposed to the noise or how loud the noise was it could get unbearable at some points but it slowly regreses back to normal around the course of 3-4 days each day getting less and less and more to its normal sound
Whats the difference between meditation, mindfulness and CBT?. Did you ever do CBT?. I am not sure what mindfulness is. I have always liked laying on the bed reading and studying. Maskers don't work for me as i have reactive tinnitus. Although i am concentrating on reading i sm still aware if the tinnitus so i sm never quite sure if this is focusing on it? .
Mindfulness is a mental practice of focusing one's attention on the present moment, while calmly acknowledging and accepting one's feelings, thoughts, and bodily sensations. It's often used as a therapeutic technique to manage stress, anxiety, and other mental health issues. Mindfulness encourages awareness without judgment, allowing individuals to experience the present more fully and reduce negative or distracting thoughts. This can include meditation for example. CBT is a different mode of therapy altogether! It is possible to experience tinnitus without exactly focusing on it, however the persistent focus on it is what keeps it around for longer and often makes it louder!
@alicemoyle So if I read or study in quiet and I am aware of it but not directly listening to it, that should be okay? Do you have any experience with maskers? If so could you do a video on them please?.
It's a weird thing. Mostly, I'm okay. But I get moments where I just want to cry, or even sometimes I just don't want to live anymore. I know that in some cases it can get much better, and even just stop. But I also fear it never stopping and just getting worse. Its crazy really that for something which can be so devastating, that theres no way a doctor or whatever can just put a stop to it.
I can really empathise with what you are saying. I had many moments where I just felt like existing was so tiring. The exhaustion that tinnitus can put you through is immense. I also remember feeling like it would never be possible to overcome tinnitus and that anyone that said that you can was lying. Even though I can still hear my tinnitus at times (especially when I am talking about it and focusing on it) I have gotten to a place where I can enjoy my life again. It takes time and doesn't happen overnight, however, it is possible and keep reminding yourself of this! The more you worry about it, the more it will be in your awareness. Try to focus on other things, to find joy and balance in your life and tinnitus can start to fade into the background.
