Livia Moati is a Parisian psychologist who works both privately and at the Kremlin-Bicêtre hospital (Val-de-Marne) In the absence of drug treatment, patients have no choice but to learn to live with this hearing disorder. “We are not trying to make tinnitus disappear, it is not possible,” she explains in a soft voice.

‘We try to give tools to our patients so that they learn to accept them, to let go,’ she adds.