Dr. Michael Kilgard
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Then you start to pay attention to it.
Most of us have heard it.
My advice for everyone is try to ignore it.
Because when you're paying attention to it, you're listening to it, you're fretting about it, you're worrying about it.
The tinnitus.
You're releasing neurotransmitters, yes.
And the more anxious they are about it, because they think, I'm dying, I need to go to the doctor, which is smart.
You should look out for new symptoms.
Totally true.
They think they're dying?
They think they've got a brain tumor.
And people are relieved...
After four months of worrying about it to realize, get a brain scan, you don't have a brain tumor.
Some people do, but that's pretty rare.
The vast majority don't.
But that worrying is the food to this particular cancer.
Oh, wow.
That worrying in the same way that avoiding going back to the site of an assault is the thing that produces PTSD.
Avoiding peanuts can create a severe allergy, a dangerous allergy to peanuts.
We need the exposure.