Understanding Hearing Loss

Better Hearing Begins With You!

 Deafness is one of man’s oldest incurable diseases.  It comes like a thief in the night.  Unnoticeable it creeps up on you, gradually stealing your ability to hear normal conversation correctly.  The more you learn about hearing loss the better prepared you will be to cope with it.  It is estimated that over 34.5 million people suffer from hearing loss.

What do we do!

Our knowledge, skill, dedication and genuine concern for the hard of hearing are part of the services provided by Great Lakes Hearing.  We look at hearing instruments as Tools we use in our trade.  We try to solve problems; we don’t just tell people that have one

IT’S NOT JUST HEARING!

We….Help people—individuals and families—get back together again

            Put Happiness back in marriages

            Lift people up from depression

            Make people actually feel younger—which can improve
            their health and outlook

            Recreate friendships

            Get people out of house or apartment and into the mainstream

            Make the noticeable, unnoticeable

            Save embarrassment

            Improve job performance and job security

            Increase personal safe

The Greatest Effect is Psychological

The consensus among many of today’s audio logical researchers is that “the greatest single handicap in hearing loss is psychological."

Uncorrected Hearing Loss

The following is an incomplete list of potential psychological problems that have been reported as arising, directly or indirectly, from uncorrected hearing loss of all types and degrees:

• Denial and Disbelief
• Defensiveness Stress, anxiety                                 
• Bitterness, resentment                                 
• Depression, driven hypertension     
• Substance and familial abuse                     
• Distrust, paranoia
• Insecurity                                                   
• Superior/inferior complex               
• Lowered self-esteem                                    
• Anger, frustration                                                     
• Social withdrawal
• Socially inappropriate behavior
• Overt aggressiveness                                      

These conditions are manifested in normal hearing individuals as well.  What distinguishes individuals with hearing impairment from those with normal hearing in the above manifestations are the unavoidable and near escapable debilitative factors found in unmitigated hearing impairment.

Unmitigated Hearing Loss by Max Stanley Chartrand, PhD, BC-HIS

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