Why negative emotions can aggravate tinnitus

Tinnitus does not distinguish between day and night, and the buzzing sound or the sound of machines inside the ears or brain, or like the sound of cicadas in summer constantly ringing in the ears, causes great distress to patients. Some patients are depressed, frustrated and in a bad mood because they keep hearing loud noises, and the low mood is collectively called negative emotions. Patients with tinnitus may experience negative emotions after a long period of time, when they cannot tolerate the condition for a long time. I once met a young man, about 30 years old, who was working well, but slowly developed tinnitus, and the tinnitus caused him so much trouble that he even quit his job in order to treat the tinnitus, which caused him a lot of trouble, and this emotional reaction is called negative emotion. Negative emotions arise because after long-term tinnitus, it affects the limbic system inside the brain, which has the function of regulating emotions, forming an alternating axis with each other. Tinnitus can cause negative emotions, and when negative emotions act on the limbic system, they aggravate the patient’s tinnitus. Therefore, the patient has both tinnitus and negative emotions, and the negative emotions aggravate the patient’s tinnitus.