> My key insight is that you suffer while the hope lives, not that you have to lean over the edge to realize that. Same insight. I never got quite down to the

> My key insight is that you suffer while the hope lives, not that you have to lean over the edge to realize that. Same insight. I never got quite down to the deep end as you did, but I recognize the despair. I'm glad you're okay with it now, life is wonderful even with tinnitus :) I once got a 10 seconds full temporary relief using the Wim Hof Method (probably due to lack of oxygen in the brain at that point, lol). That was a mystical experience. It was really tough to replicate as I had to not breathe for at least 2.5 minutes and I was doing this with doctors (for a WHM experiment conducted by the Radboud University) and I was almost at the point of passing out. I consider these 10 seconds as a gift, I never chased it.