About a year ago when I first came to this support group, the most
frequently recommended was:"there is no cure for tinnitus and the only
way (to cope with it) is habituation...".

I tried to habituate and I tried and tried....  There was NO way to
habituate a t which came with all sorts of nerve discomfort in the
head.  Then I told the group.  The response from the participants,
including those who are doctors themselves, was the same:"habituate
and habituate...".  And there seems to be a peer group pressure in alt
that anyone who explores beyond the sheer domain of habituation was
instantly laughed at and discriminated against.

I have finally habituated my t, but _only after_ I had my the nerve
discomfort in my head taken care of first.  The method used to take
care of *my* nerve discomfort was acupuncture operation or
'pseudoscience'.

Thus I am suggesting to this group to avoid the tendency of
generalization.  If something worked or did not work for you, it might
or might not work for others.  The person that perceives 'truth' is
the patient himself.

Against the background, I suggest that the 'single-dimensional'
question, which frequently appears on this group, such as "Does this
or that work?" should be modified into one that runs like this:"Does
this or that work for this or that person under this or that
circumstance?".  The latter is more scientific and less
pseudo-scientific.

FP