Why Tinnitus Is Increasing at Alarming Rates Now?

I was informed recently by a clinical pyschologist that tinnitus is the second biggest affliction to affect Mankind. Yet we still have no cure or treatment to lessen the sound, only management techniques.

 

it's been a huge issue forever. people are more aware of issues these days because of progress in communications (the internet)

 

Is there a chance that's it's there only because we think it's there ? That would explain why drugs all fail.

 

Any form of pain or discomfort is only there because we think its there. Objective measures are pretty hard to come by for a lot of areas of medicine, particularly complaints of pain or other discomfort.

 

I once had Tinnitus because I thought it was there. Really. When I stopped believing it was real, it went away. But that was a long time ago with some ear ringing. Cant confirm as fact though so see it as an assumption and dont jump to conclusions.

 

I would be very interested in seeing some details citations to ancient texts;
even more so: what about correspondence from WW1 vets and/or medical notes from treating doctors of those vets?
I have searched far and wide and come up with NO references to tinnitus before about 1960 ...
Most extraordinary lacuna in medical history, as far as I can reckon.