It just occurred to me that my awful tinnitus could be caused or exacerbated not by getting off benzos but simply by the stress of dealing with staying safe during the Covid 19 crisis. While we all deal with this change in our lives in different ways, the bottom line is that the cumulative effect of distancing, lack of social interaction, lack of normalcy, is naturally stressful. Stress is one of the causes of tinnitus or, at least, it makes it worse. Perhaps this is my problem? I definitely feel stressed every day, and I guess this builds up as the weeks, months go by. What does anyone think?