[SkibearCO]

One year update. My sleep has stabilized further and is not a concern for me anymore throughout the day. i don;t care much anymore how many hours I sleep. 6.5 hours is sufficient for me and my brain will take care of me getting the sleep I need depending on how tired my body really is. No need for me to control consciously.

One affirmation I still tell myself though every night before going to bed:
I tell myself: “You do not have to sleep”
If I don’t fall asleep, I succeeded. And then I am going to sleep well the next night as sleep pressure will have increased.

I remember Martin telling me that we have to take sleep off the pedestal I initially put it on. Once I started making inroads into the belief that sleep is the most important thing, I improved gradually.

• This reply was modified 3 years, 4 months ago by SkibearCO.

[SkibearCO]

Hi fellow Tinnitus sufferer.

It has been 20 years I went though Tinnitus related anxiety.
What turned it around was learning online about the Tinnitus Retraining Therapy from Jastreboff. To me CBT-I looks like it has a similar approach by giving you the confidence that Tinnitus is not a bodily injury per se but
everybody has Tinnitus if locked into an isolated chamber
your brain filter that usually filters out the Tinnitus sound everybody has naturally, is now misaligned
anxiety heightens the intensity of your Tinnitus.
You break the cycle by avoiding total silence and using white noise to mask a degree of the Tinnitus sound at night, not block the Tinnitus sound. This will habituate you over time and your brain will less and less make you hear it.,

https://www.audiology.org/sites/default/files/journal/JAAA_11_03_05.pdf
many resources and clinics now available

[SkibearCO]

Making my day. Appreciate you posting this. My last night sleep was 3-4 hours only for the first time.

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