will you know it when you finally go insane?

[Cynical Ninja]

or will you delude yourself into thinking you are perfectly normal?

for example...is this a sign of impending insanity and confinement in the looney bin? ---->

for days now i have been hearing a radio only in my left ear, it's playing horrible music and never stops. it is making me crazy. since there is NO RADIO on anywhere!

is it transmissions from alien planets? i'm getting worried.

it's not tintinitus. i've had that sometimes after firing range or SCUBA.

so short of jamming a pointy stick in my ear, what can i do??

and
how will we know we're crazy??

You aren't crazy.

I used to hear voices and you don't hear them in one ear or the other.

This sounds like a physical problem, do you ever use headphones for music or whatever?

I used to go and see local death metal bands and my ears would be ringing for days afterwards.