Tinnitus symptoms

The tinnitus alone is only symptom of underlying health problems, but ringing or buzzing in ears is almost without exception accompanied by:

• sleep disorder, sleep disturbances
• problems with speech understanding
• frustration and depression
• anxiety and fear, even panic
• annoyace, irritation
• concentration problems
• confusion and pasivity

Psychic problems and necessity of care for mental balance

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Hope is great thing. New tinnitus sufferers ask again and again, whether their tinnitus will get better, get worse, or stay the same. Answer to this question is individual, but clinic-base studies show that more often it gets worse than better. Although these studies could be misled, because patients with spontaneous tinnitus improvement less care about seeking help and thus they are not included.
Also, besides tinnitus itself it is important to care about overall psychic condition. Complex tinnitus therapy, e. g. Jastreboffs Tinnitus retraining therapy, always strives to achieve full habituation and hence it use also counseling (psychological interviews and consultations). Other approaches, such as behavioral therapy, work with self control of thought patterns, autogenic training and stress management.