Like any other disease, hearing loss is a condition that will influence the normal body functioning. It has direct and indirect effects on a person and other ripple and assumed effects. Many people tend to ignore any signs of hearing loss and try to look for excuses for the conditions thinking they will manage it with time. Apparently, hearing loss either partially or wholly has effects not only on your health but also on your personal life, professional aspect, psychological being and your whole life.
People tend to take a long time to accept that indeed it is a condition that needs medical attention and by the time they are consulting a doctor, the situation is just too serious. Hearing aids are available to help people experiencing hearing in deficiency and thus it is a manageable condition. Below are several notable effects of hearing loss on your health.
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STRESS
As humans, we are used to some everyday things and specific ways of doing different things. Any attempt of change from these set ways of doing things causes discomfort and worsens as we struggle with the modification. It becomes overboard when we deny and not accept the changes, which are mostly under our control. Hearing loss causes us to think that we are becoming deaf and that we are doomed. The thought of how difficult life can be while deaf becomes our primary concern and this result in stress.
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DEPRESSION
This is an accumulative effect of stress. With time overthinking about our hearing loss becomes part of our everyday thoughts. It reaches a point where we now struggle to hear, and people have to shout or repeat things severally for us to hear. It eventually feels disturbing to have people yell and repeat things and as a result, someone experiencing hearing loss tends to seclude themselves and avoid conversations, which leads to depression.
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MENTAL FATIGUE
Hearing loss calls for more attention and brain activity as the affected try and struggle so much to encode signals. In addition to the many thoughts that cross the mind of the person, the brain is involved in so much activity, which is strenuous and causes mental fatigue.
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DEMENTIA
This is generally a loss of memory and other mental abilities, which interfere with normal life, and is caused by physical changes in the brain. Immediate symptoms include disability to remember names and events and later on, confusion, impaired judgment, and disorientation. This is the most severe effect of untreated hearing loss.
CONCLUSION
Hearing loss is the initial stage of deafness. The condition is not new and to date, several ways to treat and manage the condition have been advanced. Use of hearing aids is the most common way of countering the situation and artificially restoring our hearing. This condition is not age restricted, it can occur to persons of any age and is not a condition of old age as the misconception goes. Many people worsen the situation and end up messing up other aspects of their lives as they disregard the use of hearing aids and see it as unfashionable and old looking, forgetting it is for their good. Visit a doctor at the first sign of hearing loss to save you the trouble of dealing with the severe consequences of ignorance.
