I don’t know if it is because I’m paying so much attention to what I’m hearing, but where the voices used to be, I am now hearing ringing in my ears. It feels really loud when it’s quiet around me. I wonder if this could also be a side effect of the Risperdal I’m on.
My dad gets it
Also I went to mindfulness class and quite a few of them were there because of tnnitus
Sometimes, yes. Bothers me a lot. I tend to catastrophize and think it’s something worse. I avoid googling it 
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I wonder if this could also be a side effect of the Risperdal I’m on.
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Check to see if it’s on the side effects list.
I catastrophize it as well. I think the voices are going to come back. I need to find a groove to just calm down. We’ll see what my therapist says.
Fear of psychosis is very real, I had to deal with it myself just a few days ago in an overwhelming way. Try not to obsess over it, distract yourself with chores or go for a walk early in the morning, breathe in the fresh air.
Thanks. I hope you are doing better. It probably helps that I have an easy job to occupy my time. I’m still working on finding an everyday rhythm so I can rebuild my life. Many people on this site seem happy. Maybe they just seem that way.
Thank you, hope you can overcome this too.
I’m happy most of the time, it’s a fleeting feeling, though. I experience the full range of human emotions, that’s what the experience is all about and I’m glad it is. Anxiety sort of ruins the fun, but yeah, thank god for benzos 
I’m on them too. Sometimes I feel them working like when my chest gets tight they loosen it up. Normally though, it feels like a placebo pill. I’m on Xanax, what are you on?
Diazepam, generic. It’s valium.
I love them, but I wanted to come off them, I successfully did and exchanged them for a beta blocker. But honestly, benzos work better.
Here’s a brain trainer to train away your tinnitus using a technique called ‘tinnitus retraining therapy’.
Here’s a New York Times article about tinnitus retraining therapy.
Yeah i have tinnitus it will be two years now. It started about when I went on wellbutrin and it never goes away. Just some days its less and some days its worse. I read that it might be a side effect of wellbutrin so i kind of settled with it.
If you can get your mind of it, like try not to pay attention to it, it gets less annoying.
risperdal? god, i hated that drug. if you’re stable and it’s working, don’t change it. if it’s not, maybe geodon? it was my favorite, but it’s too mentally sedating. it’s abilify or nothing if i want to work.