Tinnitus Self-Assessment
Explores how tinnitus may be affecting your daily life, including concentration, emotions, and overall wellbeing.
What this assessment explores
Tinnitus can be more than a physical experience – for many people, the constant ringing or noise creates a ripple effect that touches mood, concentration, sleep, and the ability to just get on with life. This assessment explores how much tinnitus is affecting you: not just the sound itself, but the emotional and psychological weight it's carrying. It's built on the THI, a widely used clinical measure of tinnitus handicap severity.
See the original scaleWhat you can expect
There are 25 questions, and they'll ask you to reflect on how tinnitus has been affecting different areas of your life.
The questions touch on things like:
- Functional impact – limitations in mental, social, and physical functioning caused by tinnitus
- Emotional responses – feelings of anger, frustration, anxiety, or low mood connected to tinnitus
- Catastrophic reactions – the most severe end of the experience, including a sense of losing control or being unable to escape the sound
Your responses give you a clearer picture of how significantly tinnitus is affecting your quality of life – and which areas are carrying the most weight.
Why this is free and private
Insightable Mind is built by clinical and research psychologists to help people better understand themselves, while contributing to meaningful psychological research. These assessments are offered free as part of that work. Your responses are private – when data is used for research, it's fully anonymised and combined with others to help improve the assessments and answer important questions about human psychology.
Top tips
Our best advice to help you get the most out of your self-assessment:
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