Another thing people don’t understand about severe hearing loss; I don’t think they understand the pain of it.

I’ve written before about how helpful I found some counselling sessions in 2017, when things were at their worst.  The most helpful thing the counsellor did, in hindsight, was to give a name to my emotions.  “I’m hearing a lot of grief” she said.  Naming it was powerful.  Yes, it was grief.  It was a very profound grief, akin to losing someone very close to me, because indeed I had.  I had lost a part of myself.  Not just my hearing but my confidence, my personality…….quite a lot of “me”, in fact. Continue reading →