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I have tinnitus. I don't recommend it

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Re: I have tinnitus. I don't recommend it

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Post by wiseowise »

forgotoldacc wrote: post #45
alabastervlog wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Kids doing weird shit to stand out, like every generation. It makes reading harder, and with modern tools it certainly isn't any easier to write—with both those things working against it I doubt it'll stick around.

it's not to stand out when every person types like this the real reason is it's conversational. it's casual. it removes the gap between the reader and the writer it's how people talk in a chat with their friends in pretty much every language across the world, writing was always "formal" and lacked the voice of a couple of people having a chat. at some points, writing was even a separate language. east asian people di…

> novels started taking a more conversational style

It’s one thing to have conversational style and another to (almost) completely disregard grammar.

> i can't even type "i have 5 pennies" without my phone correcting it to "I have 5 Pennie's" for some reason.

Let me guess: an iPhone? What a motherf**ing garbage the new iOS keyboard is. Hope whoever worked on it reads this and feels ashamed.

Re: I have tinnitus. I don't recommend it

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Post by neom »

DontchaKnowit wrote: post #59
labadal wrote: post #49

I feel terrible because I never did anything wrong. I never went to a concert. I never worked around loud things for prolonged periods. I never listened to music too loud. I have tinnitus. It seems to go up in intensity when my TMD acts up, but it never goes completely away. Mine isn't nearly debilitating, but I worry that it's going to get worse with time.

I have had tinnitus for as long as I have been forming memories. As a child I called it "the sound of silence" and thought everyone heard it. Never bothered me much. Its much worse now at times. Still doesnt bother me much

Same for me, is it weird I'd go so far as to say... I like mine? I like the name "the sound of silence" for it - I kinda feel like I use it as a "plane" to think on top of somehow or something. For me it kinda...whirrs up almost, till I'm fully enveloped by my thoughts and imagination, at that point the tinnitus is gone and I'm in unbridled thinking mode,I quite like the whole experience personally. I'm scared it will get debilitating like others have described, but it's never bothered me.

Re: I have tinnitus. I don't recommend it

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Post by wiseowise »

forgotoldacc wrote: post #50
alabastervlog wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> it's not to stand out when every person types like this Yeah, OK, I should have written "for social signaling". > basically, it doesn't make it harder. Iassureyou,capitalizationisn'tbecauseit'spretty.Aspectsofwrittenlanguageareoftenthereforverygoodreasonsrelatedtomakingreadinglower-effort.

saying "the way i write is correct. the way they write is signaling (and that's implicitly wrong)" is not a stance any serious linguist will support. it is an interesting point to take, to claim that lowercase makes reading difficult. 12 year olds have no problem communicating this way and it's very easily understood. same with 30 somethings such as myself. it's not really the responsibility of the youth to limit the…

>> “it’s not signaling!”

> continues to provide reasons why it is signaling

Re: I have tinnitus. I don't recommend it

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Post by RIMR »

I was very miserable when my chronic tinnitus showed up, but my life improved greatly after my doctor got me in the right cognitive behavioral therapy to learn to ignore it. After plenty of practice, it's now hard for me to hear it without actively listening for it, even though it is quite loud.

My advice to anyone struggling with tinnitus is to avoid silence for a while. Focus on anything but the tinnitus. Never give yourself the chance to focus on it. Buy bone conductor headphones and listen to ambient music instead of sitting in silence. Buy a white noise machine for when you go to bed, or run a fan. Then spend a few minutes every waking hour of your day actively listening to the sounds around you

Eventually you'll have trained yourself to listen to something else. As long as there's something else to listen to, even if it is very quiet, you'll default to listening to that instead of your tinnitus until it becomes something you do passively.

I might as well not have tinnitus anymore. I can't speak for everyone, especially not in regards to hypersensitivity to noise like the author here has, but I went from mourning the loss of my daily comfort to completely forgetting about the problem in a couple of months.

Re: I have tinnitus. I don't recommend it

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Post by wiseowise »

I have a “mild” tinnitus that I only hear in complete silence.

Last time I went to a party, I pulled out an AirPods when we were (practically) standing in front of the speakers. Still remember puzzled and “not cool, dude” looks, lol. I’m not taking chances with this tinnitus crap after what I read online.

Re: I have tinnitus. I don't recommend it

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Post by wiseowise »

khazhoux wrote: post #33
missedthecue wrote: post #7

Why is the new style to avoid capitalization when writing? I see it everywhere now. I can only imagine the annoyance of fighting autocorrect just to format your content like this.

my thoughts are too profound and vibrant to slow down for the shift key

It is also very important to reply “fr” asap, otherwise your “bestie” might think you’re “cringe”.

Like HFT, every nanosecond matters.

Re: I have tinnitus. I don't recommend it

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Post by mackeye »

DontchaKnowit wrote: post #59
labadal wrote: post #49

I feel terrible because I never did anything wrong. I never went to a concert. I never worked around loud things for prolonged periods. I never listened to music too loud. I have tinnitus. It seems to go up in intensity when my TMD acts up, but it never goes completely away. Mine isn't nearly debilitating, but I worry that it's going to get worse with time.

I have had tinnitus for as long as I have been forming memories. As a child I called it "the sound of silence" and thought everyone heard it. Never bothered me much. Its much worse now at times. Still doesnt bother me much

lol, i distinctly remember calling mine "the sound of life" when i was younger. the metal shows didnt help it too much but its how it goes

Re: I have tinnitus. I don't recommend it

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Post by packetlost »

acjohnson55 wrote: post #90

I get a weird transient tinnitus where my hearing drops out in one ear or the other for about 15 seconds, and is replace by a tone, which slowly fades as my hearing comes back. It sometimes happens multiple times per day, and sometimes not for weeks at a time. I've seen a couple specialists about it, but no known cause. I also notice a low-level tinnitus when I'm in very quiet places. I keep white noise machines arou…

I have this too. My theory is the random "drops" are caused by the inner ear hairs attuned to that frequency get disturbed by something (like a shift in fluid) and overloading their respective nerves, similar to the afterimages that come from staring at a bright light.

The low level tinitus in a quiet room seems pretty normal to me, it's your brain looking for really quiet noises that are at the limit of what your ears can pick up. Or something, I'm no expert on it.

Re: I have tinnitus. I don't recommend it

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Post by emeril »

sepositus wrote: post #72
plaidfuji wrote: post #64

I “got over” mine after many months of “tinnitus meditation” (there’s a short book on this written by a guy who has some crazy disease that causes extra-bad tinnitus). Basically, you meditate by purposefully focusing on your tinnitus. It starts to flip your brain’s response from one of fear to one of relaxation. Even within the first session, you’ll find that when you try to focus on the noise for as long as you can…

I've recently developed tinnitus within the last few months, so I'm still early in my researching. However, I've found a lot of people that discount this approach and swear it only makes things worse. That's why I've been hesitant to try it. Do you think a lot of it has to do with having the right mindset?

I had bad tinnitus years ago that thankfully eventually largely went away

That said, always having some white noise or music going helped a lot

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