Don’t be overly anxious about tinnitus!　Psychotherapy (counseling) can improve symptoms.

For people with particularly severe tinnitus symptoms, psychological influences are likely.

Psychotherapy is a treatment that is offered when a physician examines a patient and determines that stress is causing severe symptoms of tinnitus, then the patient will work with a counselor to find a way to cope.

Let's take a closer look at how psychotherapy treats tinnitus.

The treatment of tinnitus is summarized in "Treatment for tinnitus varies depending on the cause Summary of treatment methods".
Please refer to it.

Contents

Psychotherapy aims to alleviate tinnitus
Methods of psychotherapy

Psychotherapy aims to alleviate tinnitus

Can counseling cure tinnitus? You may wonder.
Unfortunately, psychotherapy cannot completely eliminate tinnitus.

In the first place, tinnitus caused by hearing loss cannot be completely cured because the hearing does not return except in some cases such as sudden hearing loss.

Psychotherapy is a treatment method that involves working with a doctor or counselor to understand tinnitus and to reduce or make it less bothersome.

Methods of psychotherapy

Psychotherapy is approached from the standpoint of both the physician and the counselor.

The physician diagnoses whether there is a serious illness as the cause of the tinnitus.
The doctor will then investigate and explain why the tinnitus is occurring.

The counselor will accept the pain of tinnitus and explore the causes of stress.

Since tinnitus can lead to depression, various tests will also be performed.

SDI (test for depression)
CMI (health survey)
STAI (State and Trait Anxiety Inventory)
TEG (egogram)

The following tests are performed in conjunction with the above.