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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