Cell phone apps, books etc. would like to hear more. Please

Ok, 2 books are Tinnitus Retraining Therapy:Clinical Guidelines along with Tininitus Retraining Therapy - Patient Counselling Guide. Author is James Henry, Dennis Trune, Micheal Robb, and Powel Jastreboff. Contact Plural Publishing Inc. Also the Consumer Handbook on Tinnitus by Richard Styler , Phd. and the last one is Tinnitus Treatment Toolbox 'A guide for people with ear noise. by J.L.Mayes

There were also past copies of Tinnitus Today - Annual Research Issue which is put out by theATA. There is an app that can be purchased from iTunes but I do not have it yet called "phaseout"
The most important thing I learned is that I need to stop stressing out thinking it is going to go away. It's been 27months since the onset and I need to accept that it is here but I do not need to give it a life of its own like I have been. Cognituve Therapy is going to take a long time but I believe it will work for me...masking is good and distraction is good too, just need to meet it head on and take the scary parts out as much as I can by writing them down and referring to them when things get awful. Education is important but now I've got to do the homework...thanks Atlanta111, I hope that helps some. We need to help each other out !!!

Thank you so much, I wish you all the best.

I spent 2 hours at the library today looking for books on cognitive therapy. there is not much out there but I did find some excellent books on hearing loss. In those I went to the bake of the book, in the index and looked up all the pages with tinnitus. These were interesting as well. So I will start reading and doing the excercises they suggest.
I want to believe there is a way to put the T into the background of my life and not centre stage like it is now.

The course leader sent me a website that she said is reputable. it is www.tinnitusresearch.org . once you are on the site go to the patient corner and open that. Thanks

I am currently using the sound app "Sleep Pillow" I like it very much. Funny story: At first my husband did not want to hear the sounds. Then one night a few weeks later I forgot to turn it on and he said hey I can't sleep without "MY" sounds. We both laugh so hard. I am still checking out the other apps. I also checked out the site you just posted and will read there this week. Thanks for sharing. I have learned so much from this support site.

Thanks for your reply. I am going to check out your 'sleep pillow app' and may download it. My niece downloaded me an app for my ipad called Supernote. It is free. I am going to use it to record my own audio. I want to make them for when my tinnitus gets REALLY loud. I am just playing with it now. I will let you know how it goes. Take care.

That's good, using white noise and cognitive therapy to cancel out the ringing sound. Do take note that there is no one size fits all solution as each individual react to each treatment differently. You just need to try and if it works stick to it. Don't give up!

Thanks for your support. It's important. It's 8 pm and I have an hour to go before I allow myself to take half of a sleeping pill. Every day I do whatever it takes to get to bedtime. On my challenging days like today I try to make my morning pleasant, then from noon to 5 pm I try to stay distracted from the T. From 5 to 9 is where I really have to work at it. If I cannot sleep properly I put on ear buds and listen to meditation music etc. on my iPad. Honestly don't know what else to do, just take advice from this site mostly.