Seldane-study unavailable to author at press. In a personal conversation with Dr. Mark Sullivan, my understanding was that he was currently working with nortriptyline with tinnitus sufferers and was experiencing a fair degree of success. Its accumulation has been linked to changes in mood which, over time, progress from anxiety to depression. The tinnitus patient may develop a memory not only for normal auditory stimuli but also, paradoxically, for the aberrant sound, that is tinnitus. Hundreds of studies cite excessive stress as related to tinnitus annoyance and suffering.
Numerous studies cite excessive stress as highly correlated with tinnitus onset.
Anxiety-J.Cicocon, F. Amede, et.al. The authors was conclusion that treatment needed to attend to both the tinnitus and the depression when present. J. Russo, W. Katon, et. The results suggest that somatization is associated with current and past history of psychiatric illnesses and harm avoidance in this sample of medical patients. Phantom Limb Pain treatment by Dr. Milton Erickson was treated using identical hypnotherapeutic application as his case study tinnitus client, noted in his text book Hypnotherapy, with co author Ernest Rossi, Irvington Publishing, 1979.