It looks terrible I know. The worst thing is that I am one of millions who used to live like this. If you can ' t identify with anything written on this list then you shouldn ' t have tinnitus. Any one of these elements on their own would be harmful enough for any person.
Combine them and you ' re left with a time bomb waiting to explode.
So now we have two lists. The first one above describes the symptoms and the second one describes possible causes. If you look carefully at the causes it won ' t take much imagination to conjure up a " symptom list " like the one above. What else do you expect?.
I dare you...... Take a pen and paper... write down your own " bad list ". Be absolutely honest and write down all the things that you aren ' t proud of or maybe would rather forget. Write down all the things you would like to change if you had a magic wand.( My bad list is there for everyone to see. You can hide yours: o)
By the way, you don ' t have to have tinnitus to create a list like mine. I would be willing to bet that EVERYONE can come up with a list similar to mine. I say only similar because I know that not everyone is overweight, or smokes or tried drugs.
Think carefully about what you are reading on your list. If you are very honest, you will find that you don ' t need a magic wand to shorten this list. The only person on this planet that can change this list to something to be proud of is YOU!
I consider myself to be lucky. Tinnitus gave me a chance to re-shuffle my life. Once more... Don ' t forget...
1. Tinnitus is not a disease, it is a symptom.
2. You are not sick and you are not mentally ill. You are being warned!
3. You will defeat tinnitus if you accept it as a part of you.
After an " auditory crash " two years ago which left me with a temporary loss of all hearing I had no other choice than to take action.
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