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the-crow-from-andreas:nightguardmod:bigbootsandscaryeyes:legal-soma:juniperf:ask-gallows-callibrator:demon-sweets:No. Just no. Ok?So I used to make this joke all the time. Now I have chronic tinnitus. For those of you who don’t know what that is, it’s nerve damage in your ears which often comes as a result of being constantly exposed to very loud noise for a long period of time. The nerve damage results in a constant ringing/buzzing in your ears. So far there’s no cure. The severity of it varies, and I’m lucky to have a mild case, which I can barely hear during the day and is easy to block out at night. That said, loads of people with tinnitus aren’t so lucky. Severe tinnitus can’t be blocked out. Those who suffer from it also suffer from severe loss of sleep, depression, anxiety…. the list goes on. Tinnitus also comes with a degree of hearing loss in most cases, making it even harder to ignore. In fact, some people with severe tinnitus kill themselves just to make the ringing stop. Tinnitus can be so severe that it drives a person to suicide. Chronic tinnitus used to mostly be prevalent in older people who worked for years with loud machinery etc, but all of a sudden it’s becoming more common in our generation. Why? Because of people, like me, who listened to their music too goddamn loudly through their headphones.Deaf by the time you’re 20? Please. That’s the least of your worries.Please reblog. This post reminded me to move my music further away and turn it down. Someone else may need to be more cautious of their shit too.This is super important. My little brother has moderate tinnitus. He can’t sleep at night because the ringing in his ears is so loud, and is almost never happy anymore because of it. The scary thing about it all? He’s 11, and has only been using headphones for a few years–so it could hit you at any age. Please be carefulAsh has tinnitus from playing in a band with no ear protection and listening to music so loud through headphones i can hear it clearly across the room. It’s also a vicious circle because where he’s going deaf, he listens to his music louder and that makes it worse. Like yeah it used to be cool to listen to your music super loud when you were younger but for fuck sale turn it down now.So I guess what we’re all saying, is “Turn down for ‘WHAT?’”.(Seriously tho, save those ear drums)I had something like this happen after taking way too much asprin and it was so hard to hear anything, let alone the constant people talking to me and they had to be right next to my ear. Luckily that wore off and I can hear just fine now, but the two days I had constant ringing was terrible.Please protect your ears kiddos -- source link
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