Dat many years – from the Covid 19 season – I suffer from tinnitus. Which means hearing whistles, brown, buzzes, hiss, beats or all together (and much worse) without being able to indicate an objective source, a source. The word derives from two Greek terms which, associating, make exactly the experience of something that “appears to hearing”, “manifests itself to hearing”. A ghost that you take you on your head.
My version of what can also be called “Tinnito” is the whistle-Ronzio. More or less high, always. You wake up like this. And say goodbye when you sleep. I imagine the ghost who first tries to beat with the festivals on the wall of the temples so as not to allow the nocturnal auditory blackout and then, defeated, he finally cares.
The causes are many and disparate, even by possible gravity, they must therefore be investigated starting from a visit to the orinolangingiara. If you do a search on the web, however, they offer you belonging to two large families. The first is that of Musicians or sound technicians exhibited “intense noises”. Eric Clapton, Phil Collins, Sting, Liam Gallagher, Bob Dylan, Chris Martin, Caparezza are brothers of tinnitus. Also Barbra Streisand, the only sister I found.
Barbara Stefanelli (photo by Carlo Vangeri Gilbert).
The second community of proposed victims is a classic: “Subjects to stress and anxiety”. And here you must immediately report a contraindication: if it is stress that provokes the whistle-by-friendly-minor, it is easy that that uninterrupted noise will generate stress, which will re-notice the whistle etc. For this, the disorder becomes easily chronic.
It seems that it can be all a matter of glutamate. Glutamate is a fundamental neurotransmitter for the passage of nerve impulses, in particular in the communication between the cells of the central system including auditory circuits. When we are “very stressed”, the production takes place and the brain cannot elaborate the overload. In short, glutamate becomes toxic to auditory neurons.
Waiting to get out of it, I discovered a life jacket that I would like to launch to brothers and sisters (Less numerous, ok, but it will not be because they endure without too many stories, those I am doing in this column?). Ė the ease mechanism: “A psychological and neurobiological process through which an organism shows a gradual decrease in the response to a stimulus repeated over time, especially if this stimulus has no significant consequences”. Learn to not think about it anymore.
Examples: the turtle that stops portraying the Capino in the absence of consequences after a blow on the carapace, the cat that no longer runs away when the vacuum cleaner starts. I am even trying a somersault: I associate the buzz with the muttering that came from the old refrigerator in the grandparents’ house And from the cuisine she plays straight in what, on vacation, became my room. Music for my ears …
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