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Seems like an old post to rescue. I was in fact talking about primary headaches being caused by emotional/neurological dysfunction. I do see that in the link you posted they say the exact same thing and they are quite common indeed. There is the obvious possibility that other more severe causes...

Mine was severe for 2 years, when I started to try, with trial and error at the beginning, to manage my reactions I felt OK even with it ringing loud. Only after another year it started losing intensity and volume. Not vice versa. Now if I have t or not is the same. Perception shapes and changes...

It still surprises me how unaware people is of themselves and their emotional life, though they already gave themselves the correct answer, again without being aware.

I'm sorry TieMinnow, I fear they won't listen because they can't understand. It's years I'd like to post my success story, but reading posts like your and the comments makes me change my mind every time. Nowadays medical science has robed us of the importance of body mind links and emotional...

Haven't read all of the replies. Just based on post title I would say, sure, most tinnitus are psychosomatic, which means neurologic, it is the same thing, just like anxiety , it is neurological in its manifestation with, most times, a strong psychological part in its causes. Your IBS example is...

Studies about what in particular ? Just tell me and I'll try to find and link you them if that can help. Anyway... "Theoretically" I think it's possible but It's a bit more complicated than that. I'm sure enough that that would lower tinnitus and the emotional response to it (this is the real...

Why scared ? It's been long known that tinnitus IS in the brain. Most recent research affirm that tinnitus starts ONLY if there is some kind of earing damage (even minimal, even normal age related) coupled with disregulation of the stress system (because of chronic stress for example, or...

Looks to me like a temporary relief, working on your self esteem is nothing automatic like a hypnosis session, it requires lot of hard work, ALOT. First of all, you have to really understand what self-esteem is, it is not just someone's emotional evaluation of his own worth. You have to create...

No problem, your english is alright, it isn't my first language too :) I guess that thinking and knowledge won't let you grasp anything about faith, the only way to "feel" faith, just like emotions, is thru experience. If you put thinking in it, they are technically sentiments, not emotions...

I absolutely disagree with the word "smarter". I think "more rational" suits better what you mean. "Smart" is as vague as the word "God". There are many kind of intelligence, I can be rationally smart but emotionally immature, "usually" who is mainly rational lacks some emotional depth. In fact...

Not sure if ADs can cause T, in my opinion it is possible but it's much more likely the other way around, the problem you are taking ads for can cause T, it is possible that someone who stabilizes neurochemistry using meds is left with an even more severe imbalance once he stops taking them if...

I guess he meant that T and emotional problems are often related, and that's true. I kinda agree to that logic, in my experience many people with an anxiety disorder or depression, has some degree of T, I mean, apart form scientific data, personally I know 9 of them and 4 of them have T...

Sorry for her :( But it's another story of bad treatment/management, not another story of bad tinnitus. Panick attacks (depression I guess), cocaine, alchool, tinnitus... T doesn't sound like her only major issue, maybe therapy and an antidepressant would have been a much better choice. Even if...

Doesn't sound good to me! About pain, international guidelines suggest that prior to use of any drug, an holistic (scientific, not new age!) approach should be attempted. Re-organization of central sensitivity in pain is usually possible with a good success rate using mind body techniques which...

I guess mostly everyone who suffer from tinnitus should take a hint from your success story. Because of the strong link between T and limbic system, whether it is bipolar or anxiety or depression, and wether it is tinnitus in first place causing anxiety/depression or vice-versa (because who...

Yup. Traumatic childhood, but mostly teenagehood. And yea, if you are asking this regarding T, well it "could be" related, just another possible cause, as long as childhood and teenagehood traumatic experience are shaping (the wrong way) a developing brain. Lot of research is being done actually...

I'm more of the idea that your point 3, at least in some case, can also be your point 2. If tinnitus is due to emotional distress I found that "coping" is in a sense similar to a cure. Especially about mindfulness that, as well known, can change electrical and communication activity in and...

Yup, I won't consider any treatment for the next 5-10 years. If any progress will be done, then I will evaluate the possibility. But I guess I'm going to adjust to these black squiggly lines that pass in front of my left eye.

All personality traits are both the result of personal predispostion (genetic, they say), which is about 30-40%, and the rest is mediated by life events and especially developmental stages (early events, in particular chilhood and teenagehood). In adulthood it is clearly harder to change what...

It is not far from researches on general population (No t sufferers) which stated that , if I recall correctly, 76% (depends on the research , i've read a pair and all of them had a % of over 70) of the interviewed reported floaters. I do have them too, no link to T anyway. Keep in mind that...

Sure man , here it is : "Prolonged auditory deprivation (through ear-plug use) is associated with an increase in sensitivity to sound possibly through an adaptive plasticity process leading to centrally mediated increase in gain; opposite effects are seen with sound stimulation" (Formby et al...

Yeah right, guys stop getting better please, you have to suffer, we need a pill, now ! C'mon Bad point there, meditation is far from being anything spiritual, it depends on you, it can be spiritual (which is still important, we are not animals) but it can be purely scientific, since it makes...

Well T, and more generally acoustic brain areas are strictly linked to limbic areas (and as a psychologist you know what that implies). Don't know if you ever had a panick attack, hope not :D but if you did, you probably noticed what a loud T you can hear in that moment! Most people reports the...

Several recent researches say that hearing loss alone is not sufficient (neither necessary sometime) to develop T, but there must be some "faulty" brain area, it could probably be limbic system or thalamus or who knows. For ex. I don't have hearing loss, never had T, at least I was not aware of...

Many diseases share some underliyng mechanisms, as you know, in fact, many diseases share most symptoms. I would be very carefull to interpret the word "link", particularly with brain disorders which share some of several mechanisms but many others are different and unknown. I'm aware that T...

Sure if T make you suffer it could lead to other neurological problems, but in general.. NO, T won't lead to alzheimer, just because hyperactive neurons means all and nothings. Depends which brain area is involved. Many different disease and disorders (and I bet something else non pathological)...

To me, it looks like drugs are both causing, but also exacerbating a problem that was already there. Given your life events, you probably had a very traumatic childhood development (which is nowdays officially recognized to possibly cause later problems psychologically, and neurologically since...

"Don't worry" Jacob, tinnitus is strongly related to stress and related issues (anxiety-mood), emotional stressors have the same effect on acoustic brain areas just as acoustic stress (mind that I said on "acoustic brain areas", not on ears, so no, your hearing won't be damaged). As someone else...

First pic is not a pizza for sure :D But... it looks tasty !! We eat lot of pizza here in Italy, it's the typical dinner when you go out with friends, which I do 1-2 times a week, love it so much for a relaxing evening, friends pizza and lot of beers :D I usually change kind of pizza every time...

Not sure if I can help. But years ago when I developed tinnitus I had all sorts of noises, each of those had different origin but a single cause, in my case. If it is a clear clicking/cracking noise, mostly when you swallow, it is related to eustachian tubes that may be closed/in tension. If...

Now are we judging upon T quality? T is sound in absence of ext. sound, so, theoretically everyone has T. But ...Who knows, in some cases it is something completely new and detached from a normal state, in other cases it is an exagerated and aberrant normal state. Depends on T. If there's an ear...

Looks like you already had some mood or anxiety issue before T, am I wrong ? If I'm wrong, I'm sorry. But if I'm right, you already got your answer why your T is getting worse. These disorders (T included) , independently from the causes, are "installed" in your SNC. Plus anxiety and T, in a...

I'm SURE (just can't look for it right now) I've read several researches on pubmed about it, in particular 1 on pubmed where people (college students) with no-tinnitus at all have been left in a silence room for 20 mins and 78% of them started to hear tinnitus like noises in their head/ears. The...

Sorry for being late. seems like Svaults already reaplied to your question. Anyway, yes, at the beginning listening mindfulnessly to your T makes it worse. Mind that if you are anxious or your mood is low, you have FIRST to work on this issue, because your reaction to your T is modulated by your...

Be sure to work on your depression and or anxiety, until it's a biological problem (for ex. bipolar) don't just use meds, they are usually just to address the symptoms but not the causes altought sometimes they are needed in the beginning where symptoms drain all your energy and the depression...

Well said, you are right and I'm experiencing the same journey. It is not T that causes anxiety and depression, it is a person prone to anxiety and depression that makes T a suffering experience. Point is that with LOT of work on yourself you can beat those tendency, and rewire your brain to be...

I'm sorry but I can't agree with you. I had a VERY loud T with Hyperacusis which caused anxiety and panick attacks every day for months. Well at least, MY experience is that you can train your mind, and T has to do with emotions and inner experiences (well, my T has been caused by emotional...

I agree about mindfulness, since I found Cbt alone to be good just for fix part of the "superficial" problems, but doesn't do much for the emotional part. Ok, be sure I'm going to search for Gaby's story :D edit : Just read it, uhm doesn't scary me, looks like tinnitus was there but despide the...

Yeah, oh well, to tell the truth I don't think the "cure" is to be out of any stressfull emotion, that would also mean avoidance to me, which can worsen things, because you can't avoid stress (which is also positive and usefull if not chronic) but more about managing stress and learning from it...

It has to do with personality, sure who was already anxious has a harder time to cope with T, but don't forget you can train your brain to work correctly/better, personality, with hard work, can be changed, slowly. And it's a wonderful journey.

Uhm, I developed tinnitus for a severe traumatic stressfull situation lasted 3 years and had a psychological breakdown. It is a long story of psychological traumas in my life, so I'm glad I got T and severe anxiety because it told me "You have to change your vision of life", I started to know...

Yup, i also took dropaxin(paxil) for three years before I started to work on myself for recovery from generalized anxiety panick attacks and depression, now I'm free of meds lucky, journey has not been easy though.

Worst advice ever. Looks likeyour infos are out to date. Everything you actually do in you life affects chemicals in your brain, just have a look at beyondmeds.com or ncbi or pubmed for scientific research. If YOU haven't find the right way to change your depressed brain it doesn't mean anyone...