Tinnitus Sound and Stress

An article by Adrian Featherstone

Stress has long been recognised as being a major player in both the cause and subsequent intensity of tinnitus sound. Stress and tinnitus sound are common bed fellows. Stress is universally acknowledged as being a cause of tinnitus. Those whose tinnitus symptoms were not related to stress in the first instant often develop stress as a result of the condition. So hand in hand these two dance a vicious circle.

Living our lives as we do in the twenty first century we constantly put ourselves under stress; it has become a part of our culture. Everything we do we do at breakneck speed. Rest and relaxation have been sacrificed in the desire to do more and to have more.

Communication has to be instant now. There isn’t even time to stop and think about a reply. Where at one time we waited a couple of days for a letter and then replied, we moved on to the instant e-mail. In case we are not at the computer we take text messages on the mobile phone. After all, the thing is always in our hand or pocket. How can you be unavailable to take phone calls when the phone is always with you? We are all living with communication overload, and that overload creates stress.

The pressure is on us to have a bigger this and the latest that. We have to work harder, faster, longer hours. We have to walk or drive through more and more traffic, traffic that is travelling faster and faster.

Is it any wonder that we get stressed? Is it any wonder that more and more of us are living with tinnitus sounds ringing away in our heads?

Many people in the medical profession relate stress to the majority of the complaints they have to deal with in their surgeries. It is a common cause of high blood pressure, heart disease and headaches. It is a common cause and intensifier of tinnitus sounds.

So it goes without saying that avoiding or reducing stress will have a significant impact on the level of the tinnitus sounds you are hearing. Time and thought given to reviewing what and where the causes of stress in your life come from can be time well spent.

Most of us can with a little reorganisation of our routine, reduce the amount of stress in our lives. Often it only takes a very minor change in the way we do things to produce significant improvement in our state of mind. Stress containment is primarily about mindset. It’s more about the way we handle stress than it is about how much stress we are under.

Learning to slow down and relax, to start appreciating the good things in our lives and to be thankful for them will reduce stress and will reduce the volume of perceived tinnitus sounds. Developing an attitude of gratitude for the simple things in life may just slow you down, calm the stress down and most important of all turn those tinnitus sounds down too.

More articles by Adrian Featherstone:

• What Causes Ringing in the Ears.  What causes the ringing in the ears that we universally call tinnitus?
• Much Needed Tinnitus Relief.  Living a normal life with the sounds of tinnitus constantly ringing in your ears would seem an impossibility to most tinnitus sufferers.
• Tinnitus Cures That Might Work For You. With the realisation that the noises you are hearing in your ears or in your head are not going to go away comes the journey to either eliminate them or to learn to live with them.
• Alternative Tinnitus Treatment.  Most people who have found that they are living with the ringing in the ears which characterises the sounds of tinnitus will have been told by their medical practitioner that there is no known tinnitus cure.
• Subjective and Objective Tinnitus.  The sounds of tinnitus that will be so well known to those living with this condition are variously described as ringing in the ears, hissing,whistling or buzzing.
• Symptoms of Tinnitus.  Millions of people around the globe experience the symptoms of tinnitus. The ringing in the ears which characterises this complaint is especially common in the towns and cities of the industrialised western world.
• Symptoms For Tinnitus.  Ringing in the ear is one of the primary symptoms of tinnitus. Tinnitus being a condition which commonly affects about a fifth of the population aged 55 or over.
• What Causes Tinnitus.  There will be few people who have gone to a discotheque or to a live band concert who will not have experienced the sounds of tinnitus.
• Finding Your Own Tinnitus Relief.  Only those of us who have lived with the sounds of tinnitus singing away in our consciousness and who have suffered the constant ringing in the ears that goes with it truly understand the trauma tinnitus creates.
• The Early Days of Your Tinnitus. Whether they realise it or not most people have heard the sounds of tinnitus. After exposure to any very loud noise we all have a ringing in the ear to some degree. 
• Tinnitus Hypnosis.The use of Tinnitus Hypnosis and Tinnitus Hypnotherapy in the battle to clear tinnitus symptoms has long been recognised...
• The Effects of Tinnitus. Tinnitus is widely described as a condition
  in which a person hears noises where no corresponding external noise exists.
• Beginning the Search for a Tinnitus Cure. If you were able to ask a large group of sufferers who were looking for a tinnitus cure to describe the arrival of a tinnitus sound in their lives, a great many of them would tell you a remarkably similar story.
• Do Any Tinnitus Remedies Actually work?  Anybody who has had the misfortune to find themselves living with tinnitus will be only too well aware of the frustration that this debilitating condition can cause the sufferer.
• In Puruit Of A Tinnitus Cure. Realising that the noise in your ears just isn’t going away can initiate a sense of panic and stress into even the most stoic of us. The diagnosis of tinnitus that so often follows this realisation only serves  to compound the problem still further. 
•   Tinnitus Masking. Those of us that suffer with the intrusion of tinnitus sound in our ears will know that the condition is at its worst when there is no other external noise to dilute that sound. It is at these times that tinnitus masking can be extremely effective. 
• Turn Down Those Tinnitus Sounds. The volume of your Tinnitus Sounds will almost certainly relate closely to your state of mind. When we are feeling down and out of sorts, when we feel depressed and moody we become very inward looking. Of course for the tinnitus sufferer, waiting for them inside their head there are always those tinnitus sounds.
• Sleeping With Tinnitus Sounds. We all feel somewhat jaded when we fail to get a good night’s sleep. It seems that while we sleep our bodies recharge themselves and our minds are refreshed. When we are deprived of that resting period our energy levels and ability to get the most out of the day becomes diluted