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"Stop pulling! You have to press in to release the trap."

Ah. My bad. That's kind of covered indirectly within the third reference paper (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0959438808000871) and more-so in this paper: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2724262

Part of the process for our hearing involves otoacoustic emission (wikipedia), i.e., creating sound. My arm-chair understanding is that we think this part of the process misbehaving is a main contributor for objective tinnitus and why we can record it under the right circumstances.

tl;dr: ear too loud.

If you close your eyes tightly you can induce the perception of color. If you stand in a doorway and lift your arms to the side so that the backs of your hands are pressing against the inside of the door frame, keep pressing for 60 seconds, then step out of the doorway and relax your arms: it'll feel like your arms are floating.

The body's systems are complex and part of reliably filtering signal from noise in such systems is establishing a baseline while in a steady state. Our brains are pretty good at filtering out noise but the pressures or degradations which lead to tinnitus seem to trick the brain into accepting some noise as signal.

If you're looking for a deep dive then the following paper does an excellent job of outling what we know and what our best guesses are so far: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0306987724002718

It's jargon-laden but nothing someone armed with a dictionary can't handle. 🙂

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I agree with you in sentiment, however; I believe the comment you're replying to was intended as a joke.

Bean.

Tone Indicators (wikipedia.com) have been around for a long time.

The syntax of modern tone indicators stems from /s, which has long been used on the internet to denote sarcasm.[4] This symbol is an abbreviated version of the earlier /sarcasm, itself a simplification of ,[5] the form of a humorous XML closing tag marking the end of a "sarcasm" block, and therefore placed at the end of a sarcastic passage.

Just because one hasn't been exposed to a concept doesn't make it new. :)

If I must trade one thing to get another then what I recieve is not free.

Yes. Exactly.

Older stuff here: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-runtime

Newer stuff here: https://gitlab.steamos.cloud/steamrt

The dev guide within that gitlab repo confirms that it can be used sans Steam: https://gitlab.steamos.cloud/steamrt/steam-runtime-tools/-/blob/main/docs/slr-for-game-developers.md

This applies to the new runtime as well: https://gitlab.steamos.cloud/steamrt/steamrt4/platform

I think you'd find more agreement stopping at "I'd rather use a free alternative". I agree with your sentiment. Replacing proprietary tools built by rent-seekers with volunteer/community run projects whose developers hold user freedom and choice in high regard is categorically better for most people.

Corporate requirements, vendor lock-in, and the friction of momentum make that tough for some people though. I'd still ask they give the alternatives a shot, of course, but I can understand why some might still choose the ideologically inferior option.

For those people? Having options like the open source circumvention tools mentioned allows them to continue using what they've paid for (and ought to ostensibly own) without being forced to pay extortion money to do so.

I think you got voted down due to your out-of-hand dismissal of that well engineered alternative with an uninformed value judgement.

tl;dr: you're correct on the first half but too hasty on the second half.

You've got some excellent replies to this question already. I want to add something a therapist told me about therapy that I've found helpful.

Therapy isn't about fixing everything that's "wrong". It's mostly about identifying coping mechanisms we developed during childhood which no longer work for us as adults. Different techniques are used to help clients start opening up to doing therapeutic work or starting it in earnest. The goal though, regardless of the technique, is for the client to know themselves better and use that knowledge to build better emotional and social tools. To replace the coping mechanisms we've outgrown with better ones.

A comparison I've made is that therapy is like working with an occupational therapist. What's "best" is conditional and is often usefully defined by what we find difficult or limiting. The best way to pick up something we've dropped varies person to person. The important bit is having healthy ways of picking it up again (with or without direct assistance).

Therapy ought to focus on self-understanding which helps us function in reality. In my experience most modern therapists advocate for this even if they aren't forward about it.

Any therapist who councils you to capitulate to narcissists or ignore your disability should be reported to the relevant licensing authority for negligence at a minimum.

I've found it's the movement and change of context that helps me. Taking a walk, going for a ride, or even just moving to a different room helps my brain kick out of one of these ruts. Dancing is a high energy option that I'm not always ready for but, when I am, it's very cathartic. 🙂

ADHD is a spectrum (as is all neurodiversity) but one of the neurochemical commonalities between people who meet the diagnostic criteria for ADHD is disregulation of norepinephrine. Getting on meds that work and engaging a therapist who can help develop better emotional tooling and coping mechanisms can be life changing. One of my coping mechanisms is changing the scenery. Norepinephrine is a precursor for a whole bunch of essential chemistry so engaging other systems that need it seems to help other areas.

Everyone is different but I've found that if my brain is stuck then my body is usually stuck as well. Unstick the body and, after a while, the brain wants to follow.

When nothing sounds satisfying and I have no gumption whatsoever I can introduce something locally novel in an attempt to kick things into gear again. Executive dysfunction can make choosing from options tough (or temporarily impossible) but, on not-the-worst days, I can at least stand up and start walking aimlessly until I start to feel different. Walking outside tends to help the most.

It's nothing strenuous or fitness focused. Just a leisurely stroll around the bedroom, yard, neighborhood, etc. After a bit I usually feel like doing something. Even if that's just more walking at least it beats mean mugging the wall until I want to cry or sleep. Usually I end up doing something I wanted to do earlier in the week though.