The symptoms can be so severe for some people as to become debilitating and even cause the person to feel suicidal. It is has been suggested that the reason the famous painter Vincent Van Gogh cut off his own ear was because he was driven mad by Tinnitus.
Hizi ni baadhi ya mambo ya maisha kwamba Tinnitus inaweza kuathiri. dalili inaweza kuwa hivyo kali kwa baadhi ya watu kama kuwa kudhoofisha na hata kusababisha mtu kujisikia kujiua. Ni imekuwa alipendekeza kuwa sababu mchoraji maarufu Vincent Van Gogh akamkata sikio mwenyewe mara kwa sababu alifukuzwa wazimu na Tinnitus.