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Coming soon. How would your life change if that's what you heard 24-7? Well a lot of people don't have to

imagine. Mine is a very high frequency screech.

People of a certain age who remember when we only in the UK only had

three television stations at midnight when it stopped,

you'd get a white dot and a high-prit screech.

Tinnitus is actually very common.

It's estimated to affect around 14% of us.

Some will be unlucky enough to hear it very loudly or intrusively, like John does.

For me I felt like I didn't sleep for it, I think just over a year.

I did, I passed out in the day day but it feels like torture.

A recent survey of Tinitus Sufferers by Charity Tinitus UK found that over one in five

had experienced thoughts of suicide or self-harm in the last year.

To go from being what I would consider very healthy to then this sound that you cannot escape from.

When we have chronic tinnitus, it can shrink our lives.

All you're doing is staying at home and living with this phantom sound that is causing you so much distress.

It ends up putting you in crisis.

For the majority of people, there's no cure

and access to support can be difficult or expensive.

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