When at first I experienced a ringing sound in my ear I just thought maybe it was the hunger in my belly and the stress in my mind.
But when I consulted with my doctor he diagnosed me for Tinnitus and immediately put me on tinnitus retraining therapy, more commonly known as TRT in the medical profession.
Tinnitus Retraining therapy (TRT) is a combined therapy technique that combines educational therapy and real therapy.
The whole idea behind TRT is to slowly eliminate the sound of ringing from ones head almost permanently.
In actual fact the therapy attempts to make you unconscious of the sound despite the fact that it might actually still be persisting in the subconscious part of your mind.
The educational therapy is a learning curb that teaches sufferers the different causes of tinnitus and how the condition works.
Generally this condition is caused by damage to the inner ear as well as the depletion of inner ear hairs that play a vital role and helping the body to hear sounds.
Therefore the ringing sound is king of like the sound of a car that has an inherent problem that needs fixing.
After educational therapy TRT goes on to insist on rehabilitative techniques meant to block of any sound from your ears using the power of the mind.
Sometimes doctors use Hypnosis and stress balancing techniques that help put your mind at ease.
After this the next technique that is used is real therapy.
Real therapy is actually sound therapy that uses certain tools to block off the ringing in the ears.
What is normally used is white noise.
Using earphones or ordinary speaker radios patients are urged to listen to the sounds of nature.
Such sounds are what are referred to as white noise and examples are the sounds of sea waves; birds and slow wind.
The logic is that during silence the ringing sound is more perceptible than when there is white noise in ones ear.