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My thinking is that the average tinnitus sufferer is introverted, slightly neurotic (anxiety, depression, OCD, etc) maybe spends alot of time "in their heads".

I spend a lot of time in my head, but I didn't get tinnitus that way.

A distinction has to be made here between "the average tinnitus sufferer" and the average person who simply has tinnitus. I believe that people who tend to obsess will indeed suffer more from tinnitus if they have it than people who aren't, other things being equal. People who were depressed before tinnitus will get worse and blame the tinnitus for it. Their depression may have been masked before by a compensatory belief that nothing bad could ever happen to them. When they lose that, a depressive belief that nothing good can ever happen to them surfaces to take its place.

Introversion and extraversion are different from shy versus outgoing or quiet versus active. These terms refer to the way a person processes information. I haven't read enough Jungian psychology to know much about them, just enough to know they're often misinterpreted.

Heather, several versions of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator are online. It's a personality questionnaire that produces a score on introversion/extraversion, among other things. Here's one site where you can take the test and get an explanation:

Myers-Briggs

The test classified me as some kind of screwy genius and let's see if I can remember the phrase oh, yes, I think it was "savior of the world but a homebody at heart." Makes sense.

You might want to keep a few board games handy. It could be a long wait.