Big Five Personality Traits are Associated with Tinnitus Improvement Over Time Scientific Reports

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3. Good point

Seems to me, also, that it’s BS, since common sense indicates that tinnitus patients who do not improve after so much treatment might experience increased distress, anxiety, etc., leading to the data which show they score lower on the Big 5, while those who improve will naturally be happy, more agreeable, etc.

So the clinical results are the cause.

Also, an ENT recently told me that amitriptyline, a personality sledgehammer is, still, the frontline drug used to treat it.