William Shatner Star Trek Tinnitus

After an explosion on the set of one of the Star Trek films, William Shatner developed tinnitus, and Leonard Nimoy developed it too. Shatner tried to find help across the country and then learned to cope through habituation by wearing a hearing device that produced white noise for a time. He later said he served as an official spokesman for tinnitus and used his experience to talk people down from suicide while encouraging them to try habituation and white sound.

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