2024-03-27 12:00:00
In the absence of drug treatment, patients have no choice but to learn to live with this hearing disorder which can be quite disabling.
“Some speak of a whistling or a buzzing sound, others of the sound of cicadas or of an airplane taking off, of a pressure cooker, of the crackling of an old television…”. When Livia Moati sees patients suffering from tinnitus arrive in her office, they have generally tried everything for months, even years, before finally turning to psychotherapy.
This Parisian psychologist who works both privately and at the Kremlin-Bicêtre hospital (Val-de-Marne) has made this hearing disorder her specialty. “We are not trying to make tinnitus disappear, that is not possible”she explains in a soft voice, referring to the absence of drug treatment. “We try to give tools to our patients so that they learn to accept them, to let go, with the aim of finding a more fulfilled life.”
Although invisible from the outside, tinnitus can be very debilitating on a daily basis. “Patients feel…
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