It all started in 2017/18. I was diagnosed with Lymphoma cancer. An 8 cm tumour in my chest, and a couple of infected swollen lymph nodes in my stomach. I was told that I needed to take at least 8 months off from working as a fine dining...
Dark Spooky House (DSH): A thought experiment for tinnitus management!
November 5, 2024 at 9:14 pm
Dark Spooky House (DSH) is a thought experiment designed to help us understand how our emotions and bodily sensations can be misinterpreted by our brain leading further anxiety and tinnitus distress. We often interpret our negative emotions as alarm...
Tinnitus felt like being a hopeless lonely shrimp in the sea which was about to be taken over by deadly waves of a tsunami.
November 5, 2024 at 9:12 pm
A patient in our clinic used to describe how he felt very small and lonely in the face of tinnitus. He had vivid images of “being like a hopeless lonely shrimp in the sea which was about to be taken over by deadly waves of a tsunami”.
In his last...
It is not only love that can blind us. Fear does that too. We need to learn how to prevent our fears about tinnitus from blinding us.
November 5, 2024 at 9:10 pm
Juliet preferred the most terrifying situations over losing Romeo in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet (1597). As they say: “love can blind people”. It is not only love that can blind us. Fear does that too. We need to learn how to prevent our...
