Hello all, I'm Christopher, the corresponding author of the scientific publication. There are many questions raised that I am happy to discuss here.So you understand how the media reach occurred, this was something I did not control for. At the Karolinska Institute, we have a communication office that helps reaching out for all media when there has been a publication of in a journal of large impact factor (e.g. PNAS, Nature etc...). As JAMA Otol is below their cut-off, Karolinska wasn't involved and it's JAMA Otol that graciously wrote a text, that was released here:Usually, the ones that want to disseminate about it, simply reuse the text.However, here some made their own article:The second one is even more disappointing, since they even quote me saying "Cederroth added that he isn't aware of any completed suicides related to tinnitus." which is obviously not true...As I was aware that distortions often happen with reporters, I decided to avoid phone calls and instead sent a text which included that there were no studies showing an increasedfor completed suicide. Our research article even points at scientific reports mentioning about individual cases. In spite of my precautions, the journalist did not do a proper job in quoting my written statements (or even reading the open access article) - this is quite unfortunate and discredits the impact of tinnitus 0n mental health. I asked them to modify this, but I am unsure how doable this is.Nonetheless, I was happy our work was published because there is little knowledge on this. As you all saw in the thread, there are big differences between suicidal ideation, suicidal attempts, and completed suicide. Our sample size was too small to investigate the latter. One needs a whole nation data to be able to have meaningful results. But we managed at least to have a look at the two first ones. For the sake of clarity in the scientific reporting and the short amount of space in the format we had, we had to exclude the analysis on suicidal ideation and instead focus on attempts.We also investigated differences between men and women, because this hasn't been explored much in tinnitus studies (with maybe the exception of prevalence and few others) and is the purpose of a recent research grant we got. We found an overall increased risk, although mild. In comparison, 40% of those with major depressive disorder or schizophrenia attempt suicide. We found this association was significant in women, but not in men - it is also possible that men do not wish to report so, as most reported cases of completed suicides are men. Even if our sample size was big, we need more work to investigate these aspects as it seems that men and women are clearly affected in a different way.Let me know if there are other things I can clarify, happy to help.