Wonderful addition to the forum---does anyone suffer from tinnitus, motion sickness (while driving or riding in a car)---I've had this condition for the past few months and it has caused my anxiety/depression to soar. Thank God for the program--I feel it is giving me the skills to cope with my life while I get through the physical problem. Anyone else in this boat???

I have the experience of being car sick, mainly as a passenger. This was a big problem for me as a child, and can be even now on occasion, especially while my permanent home remains 2-3 hours away from where I attend school.

Just out of curiousity, does your anxiety affect your appetite or make you nausieted? I was always wondering if my anxiety affected me that way because of things like this that affected my childhood.

I remember just the level anxiety I would have before going on vacations as a kid because I was always scared of getting car sick and throwing up. (Not to mention the dread of taking a pill in the early morning hours: Bonine, Dramamine, I've tried it all.) How sad is that when you can't even enjoy family vacations because you get sick on the way there and remain nauseous throughout most of the day, esp. when sometimes it's only a day trip?!

I didn't know that medical research has actually given a diagnosis for motion sickness. But I can tell you that thinking and worrying about motion sickness never helped it. I try to focus more on the destination and not the journey, though I know sometimes that can be more anxiety producing too. Music helps most of the time to keep me in the present moment and not thinking about car sickness while I'm in a vehicle. Have you ever sung along with the radio? ;P

What does this diagnosis mean for you? And how have you been treating it?

Hi Lena,
Thanks for the reply. I've had problems with the motion sick part since last year sometime when I developed an inner ear infection, which has resulted in tinnitus, also. The motion sickness is not there all the time, but certainly sometimes when I'm in the car or trying to drive. I have found recently that Dramamine helps me some, Antivert did not. And yes I do find that distracting myself does help a lot, so that leads me to believe that my anxiety over the whole situation causes it to "seem" worse that it really is. No, I never really had motions sickness before in my life until this ear problem. But, I have had a generalized anxiety during most of my life. I'm 58 years old and think the program is really good--I feel like I'll be able to change the way I think and come out of this in better shape than I was before.

Hope you're having a great day!! Email me anytime!

I suffer with this one also. It makes my ears ring also.

Does anyone else's ears ring? Please let me know. Thanks

Yes, I used to have ringing in my ears and migraines with vertigo would always accompany it. After what seemed like hundreds of medical tests (plus dr.s scaring me with talk of brain tumors, ms, etc) my dentist had me checked for TMJ. Turns out that's what the problem was and now with a retainer my jaw is realigned and the ringing and migraines have gone away.