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The first factor you need to deal with and understand when you realize you may have a hearing problem is that it is not so uncommon, as statistics show that the younger generation of music listening device users are at a high-risk of losing their hearing earlier, in addition to the Boomers who naturally have a tendency to experience hearing loss as they get older. The difficult part to overcome is that hearing loss affects more than the ability to hear. It affects your relationships, mood, memory, and even earning power. So as you experience hearing loss, you are also going through difficulties interacting with people close to you, at home, at work, and as part of the general public. You are also not able to fully participate in your usual activities; at work perhaps you have difficulty at business meetings attended by both co-workers and potential clients; in your personal life, maybe you feel the need to try to change people close to you, or alter the way you usually live your life in order to avoid feeling that there is something not quite right. This in turn creates undue tensions between family, friends, acquaintances, and people you meet through sports activities and as part of your responsibilities at work. The solution for your hearing problems is to deal with the problem head on by reaching out to seek professional advice and help.
But if you feel uncomfortable doing this, here are three things you can do on your own or with a close family member or trusted friend:
- Understand the stages of hearing loss;
- Learn about recognizing hearing loss;
- Go through a hearing loss checklist.
Regarding the stages of hearing loss, the most important element to this problem you need to understand is that hearing loss occurs gradually, which means that you have plenty of time to adapt to this, so what this means is that you are actually mal-adapting to hearing loss. Without the professional help required, you end up creating more problems in your personal and professional life, in your attempt to mask the problem, ignore it, and avoiding dealing with it effectively, positively, in a productive manner to seek the appropriate and proper solution for your specific needs. So pay attention to the following cycle (10 stages) of hearing loss:
- Detection: You realize or someone point out to you that you may have a hearing problem;
- Denial: You do not want to believe it, and this is understandable as no one wants to lose such a vital sense as being able to hear;
- Adaptation: You are still not able to deal with the problem and find an effective solution. Rather, what you will try to do is to adapt your environment (change the world) to your new found hearing loss;
- Co-Dependent Behavior: Family members will take part in the procrastination to seek professional and outside help, which may cause resentment in time. A family member trying to translate or be a go-between to do the hearing for you is a problem in itself. It is not part of the solution to hearing loss;
- Emotional changes: You start to withdraw from society and your life outside the home, as you try to compensate for your hearing loss by becoming also invisible to the world as you develop social phobias;
- Frustration and defeat: You think that there is no solution to your hearing loss problem, becoming worried about the stigma of wearing hearing aids;
- Sensory deprivation: Now, you are in dangerous territory, as side effects to hearing deprivation fail to stimulate basic brain processes;
- Getting help: This stage may be more complicated than you think, as your family physician may believe that your hearing loss is ‘minor’ as it is a fact that less than 20% of physicians screen for hearing loss. Seeking help from an audiologist is a better way to deal with your hearing loss issues;
- Retraining your brain: Using hearing instruments you will begin to re-engage your brain to translate sounds received to meaningful information it can use to help you navigate your daily life experience;
- Continuing to adapt: The conversation of your life begins again, as you are still struggling with the feeling that you are now a different person with hearing aids, but you and the people around you realize that it is a step in a positive direction. Using a hearing aid to hear is an ongoing process of stimulating the brain, understanding sounds, and reacting adequately to communication processes.
Now, you must also learn how to recognize hearing loss and go through a hearing loss checklist.
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5510 South 900 East
Salt Lake City, UT 84117
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