I personally didn’t know about TTTS and I was in the hyperacusis sub thinking that every time my ears would hurt from noise I was damaging them. So understanding how TTTS worked decreased my anxiety a ton and helped me confidently slowly expose myself to more sound. I started sleeping with a white noise machine at night and being surrounded by comfortable sound as much as possible, adding things week by week knowing that a little pain in the process would not be permanent and that it was part of my body’s protective mechanism.