A STRESSFUL CONDITION
Reaching out to tinnitus sufferers

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as tinnitus, to try to organize a self help group

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TRYING TO start a
self-help group for

tinnitus sufferers
are, left to right,
Joan Jacobsen,

Philip Charland and

Les Leader. who all
suffer from a_=con-
tinual ringing noise

in their ears. Leader,
who ts) doing — his
PhD thesis at UBC
on tinnitus, says, ‘'It

could very well
sound like a_ tele-
phone dial tone.”
The group) would
like (o invite others
to get together to
discuss their experi-
ences and frustra-

tions.

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