The hearing loss, isolation due
You will perhaps know it, but the risk of hearing loss affects us all. While half of the French experience hearing discomfort, 7% experiencing hearing loss. The elderly are predominantly affected but they are not alone!
there are several causes for this as explained by Philippe Metzger, vice president of the National Hearing Day. "The main cause of hearing loss is the genetic factor, but also the auditory stress, ie listening to music or sounds very strong and finally there is simply the passage of time since the Hearing naturally alter with time. "
But then, they are barely 15% to wear a hearing aid and not to know the real handicap what the hearing loss. For non-equipped, the disadvantages are high and are getting worse. If at first you do not realize it, the hearing loss quickly becomes an obstacle to the life of every day, and produced a real upheaval in the relations with the environment.
It simply begins by repeating increasingly what we are told, throughout the day. The work gradually becomes more difficult and relations with loved ones are less fluid. And the situation can get even worse. Very quickly, one is not clearly exceeded understand things and we feel a burden to those around us. This is how many end up close in on themselves, cutting their relations with the outside, extremely bad living their days at work. The hearing loss over time leads a strong decline of autonomy, depression and cases of isolation. Because in addition to experience great difficulties in dialogue, deaf people feel a sense of shame and end up protecting in solitude and denial of this. But this isolation can also come from outside. For convenience and comfort, some people just do not talk to deaf by Philippe Metzger, "because ultimately when you have a hearing impaired person in his entourage speech is avoided contact him."
It is therefore important not to take hearing problems lightly, because good health it is a guarantee of a good quality of life. So do not hesitate to consult an ENT if you have any doubts about the quality of your hearing.
