Every day, millions of tinnitus patients all over the world try their best to "deal with" tinnitus, many of which have little effect.

 

 

Professionals or doctors will tell you that there may not be a complete cure for tinnitus, but most of them can be relieved through some rehabilitation therapy.

Looking at many therapies, the rehabilitation therapy of tinnitus can generally include sound therapy (such as wearing hearing aids or other sound generating devices for masking) and psychological adjustment (or psychological counseling).

(tinnitus in the text means that there is no other cause except sensorineural hearing loss.)

For sound therapy, professionals are required to treat patients with tinnitus symptomatically.

For psychological adjustment or consultation, in addition to the professional consultation provided by hearing professionals or doctors, tinnitus patients should also make corresponding psychological adjustment in daily life, that is, what is usually called "calm down, get used to or adapt to tinnitus".

However, it is often heard from tinnitus patients that "these words are easier said than done".

Is it?

 

Today, let's talk about how tinnitus patients should adjust their mentality to get used to or adapt to tinnitus.

After "getting used to" tinnitus, you may not be so sensitive to tinnitus and pay less attention, and slowly drive tinnitus away from your consciousness, so as not to be disturbed by tinnitus.

Before we talk about how to "get used to" tinnitus, we should first know what is "habit".

We all have sensory filtering mechanisms in our brain, which can automatically filter out the meaningless sensory information in our consciousness.

For example, when clothes we wear touch the skin, the skin contacts the surrounding temperature, or when we walk into a place and smell a bad smell, all kinds of sensory information are available all the time.

However, we usually have obvious feelings in the first few seconds or minutes. After a while, we are used to the existence of these feelings. The so-called "living in Lanshi for a long time without smelling its fragrance, living in Baoshi for a long time without smelling its odor" is natural!

So is the ear!

 

Our ears also have the ability to ignore and filter out background sound.

Think about it, the environment we live in every day is full of all kinds of sounds, but we can still study and work undisturbed.

For you with normal hearing, you can selectively listen to sounds and communicate with people smoothly even in a noisy environment.

This is how the brain and ears become accustomed to sound.

Two obstacles

In fact, many tinnitus patients cannot get used to or adapt to tinnitus psychologically after receiving sound therapy, mainly because there are two major obstacles.

 

1. Imagination panic caused by tinnitus

 

When we are in a state of panic, or exposed to danger tips, our various senses will begin to become strong.

For example, walking on the road in the dead of night, we will unconsciously panic and imagine possible dangers.

At this time, our sense of hearing, touch and other senses will also become stronger, and we can hear smaller sounds. It seems that we can detect a little wind and grass.

These danger tips and strengthening our senses are very important to help us get out of danger.

However, because of this instinctive alertness and imagination panic, patients with tinnitus tend to regard tinnitus as a very frightening reminder. What's more, they feel that there is a "time bomb" in their brain, which may explode at any time. This is an excessive perception.

2. Unable to distinguish between real danger and imagined danger

There are definitely not a few people who are afraid of tinnitus. Because tinnitus usually comes from the sound inside the ear or inside the brain, people naturally feel that it is a danger signal.

After long-term tinnitus, the fear of tinnitus will make the brain in a high-pressure state, unable to distinguish the real risk from the imagined risk.

How to make tinnitus "natural" and "drive it out of the brain"?

If you want to get used to or adapt to tinnitus, you must eliminate the view that "tinnitus is a danger signal", correctly treat tinnitus as an otological symptom, not a serious disease, or imagine tinnitus as a relaxation signal.

This means that you have to change the way you react to emotions, to mental and physical sounds.

For example, you can practice meditation to maintain a calm and relaxed state of mind.

Sometimes, you can even try to take tinnitus as the focus of meditation. After a period of time, you may find that tinnitus is associated with calmness and relaxation. Instead, it becomes a relaxation signal, replacing the original panic and anxiety.

Of course, the habit of tinnitus can not be completed in ten days and a half months. We need to maintain a good attitude, firmly believe that we can alleviate tinnitus, and get used to or adapt to tinnitus.

In addition, it is suggested that tinnitus patients should pay attention to regular diet and daily life and exercise while practicing habit of tinnitus. These life details can help better adjust their mentality.

 

 

May tinnitus be free and easy!