Tinnitus: A Storm Within

We can choose to be more powerful than tinnitus in our feelings and thoughts. We can choose to get out of the destructive path of the tinnitus storms by changing and or redirecting these negative thoughts and feelings tinnitus produces. As like weathering storms, tinnitus can be just as unpredictable too. When we stop paying attention to the tinnitus, we can recognize the unique inner ability of how powerful the brain is in controlling and redirecting the inner noise, consciously or subconsciously. To detach oneself from the magnetic attachment tinnitus sufferers’ battle with daily, takes an innate desire to change this course of tinnitus suffering. Having tinnitus makes one live in a unique world unto itself. The troubling world of phantom noise heard. Freeing one’s thought from a tinnitus mind prison. What we choose to do with this world can either bring misery or a life filled with enjoyment. Achieving success in controlling tinnitus noise doesn’t come easy. Success in controlling the tinnitus level can have failures or setbacks sometimes, but these setbacks should be a measure in understanding and of learning the skill. To gain successful control within the tinnitus world, acknowledging the stronghold tinnitus has, will greatly contribute to defeating the tinnitus. Acknowledging the ability of tinnitus to make you lose control and focus is to understand what tinnitus does best. Tinnitus takes over life. You have to practice coping skills that work hard at regaining focus and control. Have an internal firm belief in oneself for success to quiet the tinnitus world of noise. In this book, I developed an intervention or another alternative coping skill, called the P.E.A.C.E. Step, which aided me through difficult moments with tinnitus. When you begin to understand the physical and emotional operation of tinnitus it can only help you to grasp better control over the disturbing sound. As you read about the intervention P.E.A.C.E, you will find it to be a tool of assistance to help manage and gain control to redirect the tinnitus storm.

Excerpt from Chapter 4 Steps for P.E.A.C.E. In the early weeks of my tinnitus, I often felt depressed about it and hopes of it going away was very dim. Tinnitus wasn’t disappearing as fast as it came. Quicker than any high speed internet. The sound of peace was replaced with constant irritating screeching noise. A battle of internal noise persisted daily. Friends and family said, “Not to worry about it. It will eventually go away”. After months of waiting for it to resolve, some would say “You still have it!” Tinnitus wasn’t resolving on its own, nor was I resolving it, nor was there quietness in my head or within my constitution. The weeks of the devastating tinnitus turned into unending months of endless struggling. Was it here to stay forever? Life felt impossible as tinnitus persisted. It bore an interior prison sentence with no defining crime committed. Tinnitus, the long dark shadowy noise silhouetted days of restlessness. Intervals of constant screeching train wheels, endless dull tapping, and high pitched "Eeeeeeee"’s haunted my ears with pain. Peace perished within me and I wanted this peace of no noise in my head back ever so more. But, the question was, “How?”