I've had severe tinnitus for thirty years. I've conquered it. Not got rid of it. It's on the back burner. I have one life and I'm not letting tinnitus wreck it. I don't need alternative noises or my radio on all night. I won't go to tinnitus support groups. If I think enough about it, I have it badly. That's the psychological bit. The practical bit, not for everybody, is that hearing aids that replace high frequency loss will reduce tinnitus. If you've lost high frequencies, your brain attempts to replace them with tinnitus noises. Hearing aids make that process redundant and your tinnitus is greatly muted. In 2012 I was sent to an audiologist after I'd complained that my tinnitus was drowning out my hearing. No such thing. I had hearing loss, which I hadn't realised at all, and I walked out of that consultation wearing hearing aids. I've never looked back, though replacing hearing with hearing aids can never be as good as having beautiful natural hearing. But if you have tinnitus you should definitely see an audiologist. My hearing aids are free and are near-invisible.