text:  No, not usually. The problem's there anyway and the ringing is either there or it's not. And sometimes it's light and then something happens, a medical event, some anxiety, who knows what. But there are some things we know can kind of cause a tinnitus to occur on a more frequent basis. So it went from being intermittent to now a constant thing. And that can be much more annoying and cause problems with sleep, socialization, you know, depression, anxiety. So these are things we really worry about because mental health is something that should not be taken lightly.