Peer Support
Free, anonymous weekend calls with someone who has been through severe tinnitus and found their way back. Audio only. No medical advice. No agenda. Just company.
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Open Tinnitus is a free, fully anonymous peer support service for people living with tinnitus. There is nothing to sign up for, nothing to pay, and no one will know who you are.
It was built by one person — someone working in a highly cognitive role in IT who developed severe tinnitus in their mid-twenties, fell into extreme depression initially, and found their way back. Not a clinic. Not a business. A human space.
What is Open Tinnitus
A space that did not exist when it was needed most.
When the founder was at their worst — searching the internet at 3am, finding either despair or people trying to sell something — there was no place to simply talk to someone who had been through severe tinnitus and survived it.
Open Tinnitus exists to be that place. The peer support calls are available on Saturdays and Sundays — when almost all other support is closed. They are audio only, completely anonymous on both sides, and free. Forever.
Read the full storyHow it works
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Completely free
There is no charge, no subscription, and no donation required. This will never change.
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Fully anonymous
You do not give your name. The founder does not give theirs. What is said stays between you.
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Audio only
No video. No camera. You can be wherever is comfortable — in the dark, under a duvet, wherever.
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Weekends only
Saturday and Sunday, when most support is closed and the nights feel longest.
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Not medical advice
This is peer support from lived experience. The founder is not a clinician.
What you will find here
Resources
A curated, small directory of organisations, people, and content that we trust. Not an overwhelming list — just the things that have genuinely helped.
Learn moreContact
A direct way to get in touch if you want to share your story, suggest a resource, volunteer, or ask about peer support.
Learn moreIf you are in a dark place right now, you do not have to stay there alone.
The nights are the hardest. The searches that bring up nothing helpful. The feeling that no one around you can possibly understand what living inside this sound is like. Someone here does. The door is open at weekends.
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