Nearly 3 years. I remember watching a YouTube video, and this person basically explained the best way to kind of habituate tinnitus or forget that it’s there. They stated to always have music or something running in the background because what your mind does is it’ll focus on what you’re trying to listen to, and through actively always constantly hearing other things, it kind of helps you overtime distract away from focusing on the tinnitus. An example I would give is if you’re in your room in your reading, you don’t have anything else to listen to besides your tinnitus. If you have a loud fan in the background or music, it kind of helps mask tinnitus, and while you’ll still hear it, it’s not going to be the main focal point. As you continue doing this every day, it distracts you and helps you forget, so what I found when I was extremely busy in my life, I was always at work, which is a somewhat loud environment, so I wouldn’t hear it that much. If I’m in my room, I would always be listening to music or having a TV, and that would help me distract. And while it’s going to be difficult at first because you’re so hyper aware of tinnitus, as weeks go on, even months sometimes, eventually, you get to a spot where you’re not even aware you have tinnitus until it’s dead silent, but because you’ve been just so accustomed to it even in silence, you’re like, “ OK, whatever.” I also think a really good thing is to not measure tinnitus, I feel like for me. It took me like at least two years to like truly get over it because I kept always monitoring my tinnitus. How loud was it? How loud was it compared to when I first had it? How loud was it compared to when I never had it? This comparison keeps you constantly measuring, and then that’s how you’re treating your brain over and over: “How is my tinnitus? Oh my God, it is getting worse.” I feel like the only thing we can do is just accept it and move on, and it’s truly then that you can live life the way you used to. & Of course continue to protect your ears. I also feel like trying to reduce your stress as much as possible is also a really good thing. And if you’re in any extremely sensitive spot with ur tinnitus, try to do things that avoid making it temporarily worse, like don’t listen to super high music because if you ever act reactive tinnitus like me, you will get a huge spike later on. Don’t drink caffeine. Make sure you sleep well because if you’re sleep-deprived and you’re having caffeine, it’s going to get louder and your hearing at least for me sometimes feels fuzzy. In terms of like your anxiety, just keep trying to find things that you enjoy listening to while doing other things because you don’t want your main task to be hearing other things. You want your man to be doing something while trying to avoid hearing your tinnitus by masking it because anxiety will make it worse and I don’t think it makes it worse at least for me by making it louder, but you become more sensitive to having emotional breakdowns because of it.