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Is your hearing loss leaving you feeling just a little less than? Less than intelligent, perhaps, because you must fight to stay involved in every conversation. How about a little alone? It probably seems like your friends and family are avoiding you. Maybe hearing loss has left you devoid of energy. Just the effort to hear and comprehend every sound is exhausting.

Depression is a natural side effect of hearing loss, especially when it is associated with aging, because the decline is gradual and easy to miss. In between the various moods you experience are periods of enhanced stress because you don’t really understand what’s happening to you. If all this sounds a bit like your life, then you could probably use a pick-me-up. How about a compliment?


The Ones That Offer Support



You might, on the other hand, easily pick out the sound of a male voice, but it often comes off as mumbled. The deep tones sound more like gruff and less like supportive, because you miss a word here and there allowing your brain to fill in the voids.

Although presbycusis is associated with aging, it really is a consequence of things people do throughout their lives like wearing headphones or going to concerts each week. Even playing the radio loud as you drive has a long-term effect. These actions take a cumulative toll, which is why hearing experts warn you to start protecting your ears early in life.

Nature’s Own Complements

The things that make you feel the best are not necessarily man-made. Mother Nature has her own way of soothing the soul with sound. How about the birds singing in the morning or the wind blowing through the trees? Maybe you enjoy listening to the rainfall? Since age-related hearing loss tends to be gradual, so you might not even know you are missing these things, well, until you put on your first set of hearing aids and all those sounds come back.

The Benefit of Feeling Safe Compliments Your Life

Losing your hearing is about more than just how you feel, though. There is a safety concern to consider when you lived your whole life relying on your ears as a warning system. They tell you when there is a car coming, for example. If you miss the sound of the car itself, there is the backup of another person yelling the warning at you. Those are all potentially gone when you live with untreated hearing loss.

The Environmental Compliments

You’re missing out on the little things around the house, too. How about the signal the dryer rings out when the cycle is complete? All those wrinkled clothes are enough to make anyone depressed.

There are more serious concerns at home, too, like the smoke alarm. Traditional ones emit a high-pitch sound that a person with age-related hearing might not comprehend. They make special types of smoke and carbon monoxide warning systems with low-frequency tones just for that reason along with other types of alarms like ones that flash the lights or shake the bed. You won’t have these systems in place, though, unless you recognize your hearing impairment.

Getting Back on the Compliment Track

