The Tumult of Tinnitus, Corona Discharge, EBV & My Mental Health Origins: Investigate With Care
- Josh Jones
- Jun 7, 2022
- 21 min read
Why won’t this ringing in my ears stop? An omnipresent question of late, and again I jumped to the wrong conclusion before eventually finding answers, not an answer. I hear Dr. Dre Ring-Ding-Dong but it sure ain't FRIDAY.
The tumultuous tinnitus in my head growing louder as the entropy grows more and more negative, or the white noise dissipating as I quiet my mind, revealing my natural whirring hum of misophonia or Shepherd’s Tone. Whatever it is, the buzz is not going away, and my sanity is waning. Day by day, I may chip away and have a positive blip here and there, but the trend is inescapable. But even as I make positive changes, or tell myself I am, the tinnitus is relentless – perhaps the damage done inside my head is irreversible. I will need to see another specialist about this. I am weary of a misdiagnosis, as that is the trend blaring loudly that I see nearly everywhere.
With mental health, shootings, the great resignation, supply shortages from toilet paper to baby formula, why there is a war, inflation, we are not getting to the root of the cause. I feel we are so confused and building conclusions off incorrect information, incomplete truths, headlines vs. the complex, granular detail that is truth. And as an investigator in a prior job, I know that oftentimes we are afraid of the effort required to go that deep, but the price of not finding true wisdom and understanding can be very steep compared to what you save with just a cursory effort. And once you travel down a slippery slope, even a gradual one, you may never get back to level ground. Again, I am not alone, not unique or remarkable, tinnitus is pretty common it turns out. .
Some people have a ringing in their ears. Others might hear a roaring, buzzing, hissing or clicking inside their heads. The sounds may be intermittent, or they may be constant. They may be a minor annoyance or a major distraction. But if you’re one of the nearly 10-20 percent of adults who experience some form of tinnitus, there may be help.
My sweet sound is not a ringing, more like the constant buzz of a fluorescent light, reminding me of the last night I stood in the garage at our house in Paso Robles in early January, far from a January Wedding (closer to a funeral) but the words in that tune hold so true for me. Not a good memory but that is a constant first connection and thought with this buzzing, no matter what I do. I won’t ignore it any longer, yet I am stuck trying to answer a very fundamental question. Is the buzzing, hissing and ringing growing louder, or am I just finally hearing it as I reduce all the other fog, noise pollution and etc. clanging around in my head? Have I removed or displaced distractions that masked this issue, or am I not taking 8 to 10 Excedrins a day any longer, and this is just what I get? But a little ringing is better than the alternative, I’m not shitting blood every couple of months, that is a clear plus. As I said, time to make changes and time to digest things differently, even though this all repeats in my head over and over.
The ringing or buzzing also sounds just like the high voltage power lines I have walked near or under many times in Charlottesville VA, at Ruritan Lake, either to get to our secluded hunting or fishing spot in the wilderness or just taking a beautiful walk. This sound coming from the power lines is called a corona discharge or corona loss, an electrical discharge that occurs when a fluid (like air) surrounding an electrically-charged conductor becomes ionized. The conductor (the wire) surface’s electric field strength is greater than the breakdown strength of the air surrounding it. Simply, the energy inside the wire is not fully insulated and it interacts with the air and environment outside. Sounds like the polar opposite of a problem so many of us are having post-pandemic, we are too insulated and isolated, unable to interact with our environment, and we are quiet, silent. In Japan they call this ever-more common social isolation condition in youth a hikikomori – pulling inward, being confined just like a black hole (more on that to come).
So corona discharge, environmental factors impact the noise – humidity, air density, wind, moisture, fog – and the fog especially impacted the noise level at our home in Dos Vientos (where a gigantic power line bordered the neighborhood and the trails by our house. In the gloomy foggy mornings the sound was noticeably louder than on dry days, totally sensible since water increases the conductivity of the air).
But way before the two winds of Dos Vientos and California, about 30 years ago in Virginia I remember my Godfather and I walking through the cow pasture and meadows or along the tree lined ravines so many times, when I was 7 or 8 to 13 years old. We must have walked those fields a thousand times. Sometimes just he and I, other times with my godmother and their dog Muffin and/or the neighbor’s dog Casey also. Those are good memories, buzzing or no buzzing, some of the best of my life and they created a hikikomori or black hole pull on more than a couple occasions. On these walks we would often see my Godfather’s neighbor and friend, Lawrence Creasy, who owned the large cow pasture we had permission to fish and hunt on. Lawrence was a unique cowboy, he was very soft-spoken and did the hard work of tending to a 1,000 acre farm and hundreds of head of cattle over the course of 30 or 40 (or maybe even 50) years. Yet when you looked at him, you would never guess that was the case. His skin so fair, his build so slight, voice so soft and his communication so meager yet refined, his dress so proper and tidy you might think he was lost in the country. Whenever he walked outside he had an umbrella up, rain or shine, come to think of it I don’t ever recall seeing him during a rain, it was always sunny as he walked the land with his umbrella, the Mary Poppins of Fluvanna County, we could see him from miles away. When he watched TV in his small home, he did so through a mirror, never directly looking at the screen or being in the line of the ‘waves’ coming from the TV, just as he always used the umbrella to protect himself from the sun’s rays, or the corona energy being emitted from the power lines that went along his property. Mr. Creasy was always so kind to me, ever soft-spoken, but always giving me a smile and wanting to know how I was doing. I also remember his sister Irene and her husband, Ira Dunn – Ira and Irene, Mr. and Mrs. Dunn, and how kind they were also, like so many others at Ruritan Lake. The Walkers, The Mitchells, The Smiths, The Sjostroms (or was it Shostrom?), The Binglers they all shared so much love and kindness with me, all playing a part in my growing up as if I were their own son. We can often get things so mixed up, I felt I was missing something because I was without a father and I had at least 5 or 6 of them caring for me in just that way for all those years. That is why I always love escaping to Ruritan Lake, it was a safe and happy place for me and still is to this day, albeit only a mental escape now as I haven’t been there in more than 10 years. But like everywhere and everything, there was a bit of evil at the lake too, in the form of Paul Wayne, but that is not for today.
Now acknowledging or realizing that it takes quite a bit of energy and time to solve most things (there is no doordash, prime or uber for the real problems we have), I start with the thought of how can I manage this tinnitus to be less of a nuisance while I go through the full process to figure this out?
They say (again – google is my guide):
Tinnitus can sound louder when you are in total silence. Listening to soothing music or nature sounds can promote a comfortable state of relaxation. Other soothing sound suggestions are an aquarium, dehumidifier or electric fan.
And I know this to be true. One of the many reasons I love taking a long shower, or riding in the car, is the noise drowns out that ringing or buzzing and it feels very good. I can escape reality in my mind while also escaping the buzzing in my ears. These are favorite activities that take me to a far off place in my mind, also very soothing to get away from the headspin that is also going on regularly, relentlessly. My head is a galaxy of thoughts and feelings, hormones and other little signalers and receptors firing like flashing stars, and in the middle of it all is a big black hole.
Some of the tinnitus treatments (or tricks) below sound like our mental health stigma in general: accentuate the positive instead of truly dealing with your issues (amplification), mask or hide your true self, the issue, your feelings and perceptions (maskers). But others sound like the perfect way to solve a problem, mental or physical – a combination of retraining that comes from knowledge and learning, cognitive behavior theory and biotherapy or quieting your mind, and chemical / medication-based drug therapy that targets the mechanism of action behind the effect or manages the effect.
Amplification – If you have hearing loss and tinnitus, a hearing aid will help you hear ambient sounds that can take the focus away from the tinnitus.
Maskers – This is a device that resembles a hearing aid and produces a “shhh” sound to cover the tinnitus. “These help your brain suppress the phantom noise so it’s less bothersome,” Dr. Mowry says.
Retraining therapy – You can try to retrain your brain to ignore the tinnitus sounds. This treatment can take more than one year.
Cognitive behavior therapy – This helps you identify and alter maladaptive thoughts and behaviors to achieve relief.
Biofeedback – This therapy teaches stress management and how to control your blood pressure, heart rate and skin temperature.
Drug therapy – Some medicines have been investigated for use in relieving tinnitus; however, medicines are primarily used to help with anxiety, depression and sleep difficulties that can be associated with tinnitus. Treating these problems can indirectly help.
I see and hear the cognitive behavior theory bell ringing in so much of my reading / research and discussions with my therapists. My one truth - there’s single factor or solution to snap you out of the trance when it comes to mental illness – more deafening, there is no fix, only treatment and management. I have to repeat these things for them to stick, much more than one hundred times until these helpful thoughts and tools are hoarded in my brain just like so many destructive things took up residency for most of my life. Treatment for mental health conditions is a multi-factored approach as our ailments are not derived from a single source. This all sounds familiar and plausible for understanding, managing and then maybe if I’m lucky, solving this physical problem in my ear, while tending to the bigger problems between those ears. Tinnitus is another aspect of my mental health reality.
Just as I say to my team at work, no major advancement or change in this world can truly be attributed to a single person or – everything of significance takes a team. Solving mental health takes a comprehensive approach to achieve total wellness, and tinnitus is just a single scale on the fish I need to fry. My conclusion is that tinnitus, more likely than not, is in my case a mental health symptom, with a twist coming later. And the literature (true peer-reviewed science-based conclusions vs. a single article I googled) supports this:
Relationships Between Tinnitus And The Prevalence Of Anxiety And Depression
The Correlation of the Tinnitus Handicap Inventory with Depression and Anxiety in Veterans with Tinnitus
In my case, the ringing, buzzing, endless hissing in my ears is something I feel was caused by all the screaming, fighting and commotion going on silently in between my ears. Nobody else could hear all the screams and yelling, but my head and ears surely have felt it. I am not a veteran, I did not go to war, I created a war in my head. The greatest threats will always come from within, that is true in my case as I became my only and worst enemy. And nobody else could save me by throwing in the towel or ringing the bell one last time. That was also all me.
There are two different diagrams for me here to sort out the physical and emotional:
Physical stimulus – damages ear function and/or neural circuits – tinnitus is the effect
Emotional stimulus, constant internal mental issues – damages neural circuits and neck-up make-up and voila, tinnitus is the effect
What do they say about a quiet mind? Maybe there is something literal to this figurative concept also.
A quiet mind , and human wholeness, are available through controlling discursive thought and developing nondiscursive perception.
The mechanisms of tinnitus are known to alter neuronal circuits in the brainstem and cortex.
I think we have altered neuronal circuits resulting from mental health issues and emotional trauma as a sensible cause of my tinnitus along with many others, it simply makes sense. There are far too many people who have never worked near loud machinery or constant noise pollution with this auditory condition that also have mental health issues. Yet this is not the case when I look for validation of this theory.
Next, ah ha, I’m getting pessimistic again - what I wonder the most and where I am left drifting lifeless like a small star about to be swallowed by a black hole (negative, defeated) is that none of the proposed symptoms of tinnitus come from mental health sources, how can we have yet another mental health blind spot on our hands. Sure, there are clearly physical factors, but we cannot ignore what we can’t see – the factors inside our brains, the emotions, feelings and thoughts which can move mountains, bang drums and gongs also. And then another twisted punch-line, I knocked myself out again.
Here I am, part of my own story of incorrect diagnosis and not getting to the root cause – thinking all of this ringing and buzzing is purely because of my mental instabilities, from a single cause. Wrong again – again I had to dig deeper, unlock bias, look at history and get granular. In just the last few months of my 42 years, I talk to my Mother about real things, difficult things, real meaningful things (and not just difficult, really positive meaningful things also). We don’t casually talk only about the weather or food or the news anymore. Just this morning she reminded me of the many physical health issues I had when I was very young that are very likely related to tinnitus. There were good memories we shined light on also: She and my Godfather often took me to the NASA wind tunnels (their place of work) which was fascinating to me (then and still is). Think of a 5 to 10-story hanger with the biggest fans on the planet creating wind turbulence to evaluate wing designs, rockets, planes, everything. A kids Top Gun mash-up with Weird Science.
You may be thinking got-cha, physical stimulus damaged the ears and caused the ringing, not this guy’s crazy mind (crazy as it may be). But I know I wore ear protection for every one of those tunnel visits, every single one of them – I can still see the little yellow and orange roll-up plugs and then the second layer of protection the aircraft carrier traffic controller muffs that we all had on – not just my Mom, but her co-workers who were so kind and caring to me, made sure I was protected and could enjoy such a spectacle of the wind tunnel tests. I will never forget that also, the way they treated me like I was an astronaut about to step into the space shuttle. But what I had forgotten, was about other physical trauma: the severe ear infections that plagued me from the time I was ~2-7 as well as the multiple strep infections and other ENT issues I’ve had intermittently for as long as I can remember. The ear infections were terrible now that I unblock that from my mind, so bad once they had to puncture the left eardrum or some overblown bubble in my left ear that needed a pressure release. They also had to put tubes in my ears to relieve pressure and goo for a longer-period of time. Could have a thing or two to do with the ringing – ding ding ding – quite possibly, ey!
Then the strep infections, I always had throat problems, well now I read that as a risk of causing PANDAS – and I’m not referring to my favorite or second favorite animal out there on the planet. PANDAS and PANS is when a child (typically children and young adults) has sudden changes in their mental health in the form of obsessive-compulsive behavior, anxiety, depression, mood swings, trouble with aggression or mania, fears and sensitivities. Sounds like hormones plus to me, the trials and tribulations of growing up. But what is interesting is the causes – a mistake by the immune system causes relatively mild infections to have significant neurological impact.
What Causes PANDAS and PANS?
Experts believe PANDAS and PANS happen because of a problem with the immune system's response to an infection.
Instead of attacking the germs, the immune system targets a part of the brain by mistake. This part of the brain is called the basal ganglia. It affects thoughts, feelings, movement, and other behaviors. Experts believe irritation in this part of the brain leads to the symptoms.
What's the Difference Between PANDAS and PANS?
The most common cause of a severe onset of OCD and tics is a Group A Streptococcus ("strep") infection. When it's clear that a child's symptoms are linked to a strep infection (like strep throat), it's called PANDAS. It stands for Pediatric Acute-onset Neuropsychiatric Disorders Associated with Streptococcus.
PANS is when the severe onset of OCD symptoms is linked to another infection. These include the flu, chickenpox, mycoplasma, and Lyme disease. PANS stands for Pediatric Acute-onset Neuropsychiatric Syndrome.
Ok so tinnitus probably was caused by the ear issues or at least they had something to do with it.
And then I couldn’t help but go back the untimely adolescent kiss of near-death, getting a severe mononucleosis infection when I was 15 or 16 that nearly put me down for the count. I can’t remember the kiss, but I hope it was at least a French style 30 seconds or more make-out session to make up for all the trauma afterwards. To this day I feel I was never the same after that little kiss. Most people don’t have an 8 day stay in the hospital, mostly sedated with a very high fever when they get the harmless, cute, get-out-of-school-for-a-week, mononucleosis – maybe I kissed the devil himself (or herself, let’s not propagate any gender bias here) who knows. But mononucleosis is another bacterial infection like strep and who knows, perhaps it was a second attack on my Basal ganglia after the strep infections. Just additional lines in the fishbone diagram of my mental illness, to be confirmed or not later.
The most common cause of mononucleosis is Epstein-Barr virus – that I had no idea about.
Info on acute mononucleosis infection and link to higher risk of depression: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33571632/ (Thank you Denmark for applying real stats to understanding this – 12,510 hospitalized individuals and a four-year evaluation period is a nice data set).
And now I am spinning again and ringing between my ears all at the same time.
There’s so much you can learn – and I’ve heard quite a bit about Epstein-Barr virus over the last 6-12 months given my profession in the biopharmaceutical industry. Yet today I learned something obvious about the virus that I had no clue about. In January of this year the journal Science concluded that there is a high prevalence of EBV associated with MS and there’s other information that links viruses like EBV to mental health conditions. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abj8222
Science is one of the most-respected and well-regarded journals in medicine and well science, so its not a random publication that was peer-reviewed by someone in their basement and signed off as true like Wikipedia (although I do love wiki also). Start with Science – that is a new motto also ringing in my mind.
Total bipolar ADHD aside here, Start with Science, SwS – must trademark this, the hats look fantastic already – I can see some catchy logo and an ocean blue hat made 100% from recycled or upcycled materials coming to the red MAGA hat fight round 2 brewing soon for 2024 unfortunately. I’m not a political person and none of this is meant to have any political spin, but I gotta say whats on my mind – holding too much in is part of what got me in all of this mess to begin with. The fact that we have most of our country’s decisions being made by people who are 70+ and can barely distinguish jell-o from pudding is a much bigger problem than any single person or party. Why can’t the President be 34 years old, yet can be 84 years old with less mental capacity than a 3- or 4-year-old, struggling mightily? Or 79 years old and spends all day on the pot trying to twitter like a crying baby? There is a limit to age-driven wisdom, all power curves have two sides.
Ok sorry about that, got more long-winded that I wanted to but had to be said. The average age of a US senator is 64 years old, and 21% of our senators are between the age of 70 and 80. Let that sink in, and how many of them are wearing depends undergarments when they actually show up to our nations capital to vote on matters of great importance for our future (do they even know the names of the brains behind the curtain who are telling them what to do)? And are their brains soggier than their shorts or morning oatmeal porridge? Possibly. Ok sorry again, but that is it. And its True.
Cognitive decline starts as early as 45 – so I really only have 2 years to figure out all of this ringing in my head with any hope. Glad I started when I did – I’ve never been a good starter, it took me to turn 21 and be an adult twice to learn anything. https://www.bmj.com/press-releases/2012/01/05/cognitive-decline-can-begin-early-age-45-warn-experts And btw – by the time you are 65-70 years old the cognitive decline is about 10% and getting worse by the minute like any other depreciating asset (study of ~7000 people over 10 years). This all assumes you were starting from a good place too, I would doubt that with many politicians.
Look no further than the Mediterranean diet for a very useful figure on cognitive decline: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/320491088_The_Mediterranean_Diet_and_Healthy_Brain_Aging_Innovations_From_Nutritional_Cognitive_Neuroscience
Apparently 35-50 years old is the sweet spot, but we have to kick out many who are overstaying their welcome.
We need a different strategy and game, much more than different people in the game. And yes, we are getting dumber and worse every day, only technology and science can help offset that trend – aging is a capacity and capability black hole – a garbage disposal that chews up your wits and spits out dumbness.
When does age-related cognitive decline begin: too late, it already started if you are reading this. https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/When-does-age-related-cognitive-decline-begin-Salthouse/06389effdf77c2328b3c0fe463bee6a3fd8c2e50
Ok, truly that is the end of the aside, the end of the easily distracted mid-blog intermission. Back to business, ring the bell….,
Not only didn’t I understand that mono is from EBV. I had no idea really what Epstein-Barr virus was or what the risk factors and long-term issues may be. I have heard of it quite a bit and it directly impacted me, that is sad to say now. Well now I do – quickly jumping from tinnitus and corona discharge, to ear infections, strep throat, mononucleosis and black holes to EBV. What is very scientifically interesting to me about EBV is that EBV is the ONLY human virus that infects, activates, clonally expands and persists latently in B lymphocytes for the duration of the infected individual’s life (your B lymphocytes are your infection-fighting white blood cells – pretty ironic, a low-blow for a virus to attack your attackers and infiltrate them with no way to irradicate them, we need X lymphocytes to attack the infected B lymphocytes now). Well also, there is much more to EBV than I realized, EBV is very common, is correlated to many mental health and neurological conditions (isn’t that redundant, aren’t neurological conditions mental health conditions and vice versa – see just how far we have to go on this).
EBV and depression: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/article-abstract/493868
EBV and schizophrenia: https://www.treatmentadvocacycenter.org/fixing-the-system/features-and-news/4141-research-weekly-epstein-barr-and-schizophrenia
EBV and bipolar – attack on the hippocampus (what’s wrong with his medulla oblongada – is a quote from the Waterboy that is coming back to me here):
This is fascinating to me and I love an option to completely take out the possibility of something happening. That is exactly what most vaccines do, and when I worked on the Gardasil vaccine against human papillomavirus (HPV a leading cause of cervical cancer), I got a real taste of that and how positively impactful removal of risk can be in society. Risk reduction is a nice second, but removal a clear number one. I learned so much on so many levels working on Gardasil, truly lucky to be a part of that extraordinary team, diverse team from all angles. Oh and also HPV causes much more than itchy, inflamed genitals and cervical cancer, which btw is bad enough. HPV also is known to cause head and neck cancer. And head and neck cancer is also associated with increased mental health issues – increasing from 20 to 30% - probably another viral attack in the brain. https://www.healio.com/news/psychiatry/20190228/mental-health-disorders-more-common-after-head-and-neck-cancer-diagnosis ).
Ok, that was nearly another aside, but lets pull back to EBV, we can look into any similar pathway for HPV later.
When I see EBV and bipolar disorder (BD), unfortunately, I see me and my enemy again – me in the form of my own immune system attacking me….
The cause of bipolar disorder (BD) is unknown. Here, I propose the hypothesis that BD is a chronic autoimmune disease caused by Epstein–Barr virus (EBV) infection of autoreactive B cells. It is postulated that EBV-infected autoreactive B cells accumulate in the brain where they provide costimulatory survival signals to autoreactive T cells and differentiate into plasma cells producing pathogenic autoantibodies targeting brain components such as the N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor. It is also proposed that the accumulation of EBV-infected autoreactive B cells in the brain is a consequence of a genetically determined defect in the ability of CD8+ T cells to control EBV infection. The theory is supported by studies indicating that autoimmunity, EBV infection and CD8+ T-cell deficiency all have roles in the pathogenesis of BD. According to the hypothesis, BD should be able to be treated by EBV-specific T-cell therapy and to be prevented by vaccination against EBV in early childhood.
BD: BD presenters have demonstrated underactivity of the ventrolateral prefrontal cortex and overactivity in the limbic regions, thalamus and basal ganglia (There’s basal ganglia again just as with the strep infections that lead to PANDAS)
Those with BD have a decrease in receptors for certain proteins – are those receptors worn out from all the virus particles introduced to and that become accumulated in the brain?
Then there is the significance of EBV being linked to multiple sclerosis (MS) a devastating neurological condition – a lot of news on that recently and for good reason as correlation and causation, understanding mechanism of action is hope. MS is a chronic condition of the central nervous system (CNS). MS is strongly associated with BD and major depressive disorder, not surprising at all now that I read and think about this for more than a half a second.
BD attributed to autoimmune conditions – do we go back to NMDA here? This is too deep for this article and moment, but something to dig further into (I can see EBV linked to BD linked to many other things).
Maybe its time to contact 23andme since they have my full genetic code - any PANDA DNA?
So we know viruses do damage, damage beyond the immediate impact – so now I can’t stop thinking about the long-term effects of COVID-19. Things we will surely find out years into the future, and it won’t be that we were microchipped or there is some conspiracy about the vaccine, that is for certain. Sure, the flu-like present day trauma is one thing, the impact on our society and many many mental health effects we have already seen or are just bubbling up to the surface, and what will we find out in the years ahead. Not a good thought, and COVID-19 may negatively impact mental health directly as well as indirectly.
From the EBV article (and I am not saying COVID-19 will be the direct cause or lynchpin for future increases in mental health conditions, but I do think we will see an uptick not just present day, but down the road also – as the impact could simply be the indirect result of COVID-19 infection):
As with previous investigations of infection and schizophrenia, the question of causality remains: does infection cause schizophrenia, or do the effects of schizophrenia on the immune system increase susceptibility to infection?
And who knew about 90% of us will be infected with EBV – it’s that common, just like herpes, but also can cause schizophrenia or bipolar in addition to anxiety, OCD and bipolar disorders. Hearing how common EBV is, that softens the correlation for me, but I am thinking more about the timing of infection and severity – where that is key and in my case, may help me to understand this as another plausible root cause or causal factor for my ever-blue state (a causal factor is a condition which may not be the true root cause, but if the condition were eliminated, it could have prevented the issue from occurring or limited the severity or frequency). For me, there is no smoking gun, but many causal factors or small contributors that got me to this place and I need to unpack each bag and evaluate the contents. Just gotta keep pushing forward and remembering, processing and learning.
I now argue that a combo of causes (just like a combo of solutions) is highly likely, for tinnitus. We gravitate to physical, tangible causes or specific events because they are easy to understand and see, touch, visualize. Yet many times the true root cause of the issue is invisible, or a combination of the visible and invisible.
I am a bit perplexed, perhaps completely enraged - as they say medications used to treat anxiety, depression and sleep difficulties are associated with tinnitus. Could this be any more backwards or miss the mark by a wider margin? Perhaps the correlation between people with tinnitus (not caused by the acute trauma of a chainsaw or standing next to a loudspeaker), is that the madness in their minds is leading to over-firing synapses and the neural power lines deliver a constant hissing in the form of a psychological corona discharge. And they just happen to need medication to find any hope of quieting the noise, the medications don’t cause the noise. What we are missing is a higher prevalence of mental health issues such as anxiety, depression, sleep difficulties, bipolar, OCD, schizophrenia associated with tinnitus. So again we mix the causes and effects and the inputs and the outputs and our linkages are all tangled up. Let me guess, as we see a rise in mental health conditions, we will see a rise in tinnitus. The correct connectivity is ringing pretty loud and clear in my mind on this.
Dr. Dre Time: Ring-ding-dong, Keep Their Heads Ringin! (From the motion picture Friday soundtrack, 1995)
January Wedding song & lyrics from the Avett Brothers (I and Love and You, 2009)
She keeps it simple And I am thankful for her kind of lovin' 'Cause it's simple
No longer do we wonder if we're together We're way past that And I've already asked her So in January we're gettin' married
She's talkin' to me with her voice Down so low I barely hear her But I know what she's sayin' I understand because my heart and hers are the same And in January we're gettin' married
And I was sick with heartache And she was sick like Audrey Hepburn when I met her But we would both surrender True love is not the kind of thing you should turn down Don't ever turn it down
I hope that I don't sound to insane when I say There is darkness all around us I don't feel weak but I do need sometimes for her to protect me And reconnect me to the beauty that I'm missin' And in January we're gettin' married
No longer does it matter what circumstances we were born in She knows which birds are singin' And the names of the trees where they're performin' in the mornin And in January we're gettin' married Come January let's get married
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