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Hope Lanter explains how hearing loss leads to depression through social isolation and reduced self-esteem. People withdraw from conversations, feel older than they are, and spiral downward mentally as a result.
Hope Lanter explains how hearing loss leads to depression through social isolation and reduced self-esteem. People withdraw from conversations, feel older than they are, and spiral downward mentally as a result.
There are so many studies that show the connection between hearing loss and depression. When you're in the middle of something and you feel like you're not part of it, so the social isolation piece of this, as well as the fact that you feel like, "I'm not really good as I used to be. I'm not as healthy. I'm not as—" all the things that we know that happen with aging, we can start to see that hearing loss can impact that and turn us into this vicious circle of, of kind of spiraling downward. In a way that says, you know what, my self-esteem is not as good, my self-worth is not as high as it used to be, and ultimately that can make us feel like we're not, not okay.
