Instead of Just Denying Deafness - Suicide
Wednesday October 15, 2008
Many adults who are losing their hearing, will try to deny it. After awhile, they may come to accept it. Unfortunately for one United Kingdom woman, it was too much for her to bear. She committed suicide because she was afraid of becoming deaf.
I have never heard of anyone committing suicide because they were afraid of becoming deaf. (I am aware that there can be depression). Have you ever heard of anyone killing themselves because they did not want to be deaf?
Comments
That’s sad! I know they don’t know how to reality or deal with their hearing loss before sucide. I never knew about the situation is huge problem in UK. Unfortunately for people go through difficult time to idenifty or hard of hearing loss.
That poor woman was suffering from dementia. If it wasn’t deafness, it would have been some other fear.
Bill, I agree with you. It might be dementia.. It could be confusion her hearing sound where it came from. I think Sort of hear someone warned her. She did not seem getting it before it’s happened.
It is really not recongized of signal by doctor often mistreated or label to be deafness.. It might be more serious depression or dementia, That’s serious!!! Something that doctor oftem mistaken for other incorrect medicial related.
This is a hearing woman who felt she was losing her abilities. From the little we learn about her in the newspaper clipping, she was also suicidal. The decision by the authorities was actually an oversimplification so that the case could be closed as a suicide.
If we are to draw any conclusions, it would be to be extra sensitive to people losing their hearing and try to focus on building them up in other areas.
I am losing my hearing progressively and, believe it or not, have considered suicide because of the social isolation I feel creeping in, the hopelessness it creates, and its impact on my professional abilities. But I can’t because I have young children and I can’t leave them that way. Please be sensitive to the hearing impaired and make those close to you who are losing their hearing know that you still care for them.
I agree with James, I personally have suffered all my life with hearing problems. Just recently Ive been in the have the granulations cut away, and 2 weeks after the operation I still cannot hear. Its like a bomb has gone off next to my head, leaving me hearing impaired, with the sound of loud tinnitus, and I mean that loud I have to lip read, cannot hear the radio at work, feel the thud of my foot steps in my ears as I walk. Imagine wearing a helmet on your head for two weeks, and never knowing when the hearing will return. Like James, I have no clinical depression, nor have I have dementia. I am a working man for lettings business, have been for 4 years. Some of my defness my stand from being a drummer in my younger years, however I have hearing problems prior to this period. I was 5 when I had my first operation for gromits, I was 14 when I started drums. In total Ive had 22 operations on both ears (11 each side)I found the best thing for it is to surround yourself around gentle noise. Because if you are sat in a quiet room, it drives you up the wall! I know play drum with ear plugs in, even though I cannot hear, I still have to protect them so they do not get sore. Like any other part of the body when playing sport for instance. But I will have to research further before i am happy with the defness not casuing suicides, because we have a freind at work, who knows someone who did commit suicide, and there was no clinical depression surrounding this. I shall find out more…