feeling really down

sillyme673

Hi have you checked out things like Ladies club we have at our local community centre and craft club. I go to the craft club and am useless but I try and there is all ages and abilities. I am quite shy but people are lovely if I smile alot and make eye contract. I would join everything local and see what I liked. On definitely go back to doctors they are there to help you. Good luck:)

AngelAlexa

A friend joined University of the 3rd age, she is never home now. She has made loads of new friends.

Mojisola

Our local paper has a Community section one night a week which lists all the local groups - there's such a variety, there's something for everyone. Find out whether yours does the same.

whitewing

I don't know if they are on sale yet but I am sure I read about fire alarms that emit a smell that is impossible for a deaf person to ignore even if they are sleeping.

Mojisola

These are available but they are expensive!

https://www.actiononhearingloss.org.uk/shop/alerting/smoke--and--fire-and-carbon-monoxide-detectors.aspx

whitewing

This was what I had read about:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/8592180.stm

summerof0763

whitewing wrote: »

This was what I had read about:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/8592180.stm

strange one but as with all these things you find them expensive xx

whitewing

May be worth contacting your local fire brigade to see if they provide a similar service to this

https://www.wmfs.net/content/deaf-community

Goldiegirl

SailorSam wrote: »

This is going off the topic of the thread so i hope you'll excuse me, but it was just a funny story i heard about lip reading.
Last week we had the River Festival here in Liverpool and much of it was based around WW1, 'cos of the 100yr anniversary. One man who was speaking told a story about his Mum who had worked in a noisy ammunitions factory. He was asking her about a Govt film at the time to support the men in the trenches, but she told him that all the women from the factory had walked out before the end 'cos of the bad language. He told her 'it was a silent movie' What bad language ?
She said, 'cos of the noise in the factory they'd all learnt to lip-read, so knew what the soldiers were saying.

:rotfl:

I'm hoping to achieve similar results, like working out what the footballers are saying during matches!

Savvy_Sue

Mojisola wrote: »

We've got a really good Hard of Hearing club - see if there's one in your area. They have monthly meetings and, of course, are really understanding about communication problems.

Or lipreading classes, as suggested elsewhere, if you have a local one, check here. Looks like there may be one in Perth, although I don't necessarily trust that site to be kept up to date.

You might find you can email audiology, btw, if that helps, and should you be very down again you can also email the Samaritans, if that's easier than talking.

whitewing wrote: »

I don't know if they are on sale yet but I am sure I read about fire alarms that emit a smell that is impossible for a deaf person to ignore even if they are sleeping.

whitewing wrote: »

May be worth contacting your local fire brigade to see if they provide a similar service to this

https://www.wmfs.net/content/deaf-community

Fire brigade are a good suggestion: mum has a vibrating smoke alarm to go under her pillow, she thinks it would shake her out of bed, never mind wake her up! Also strobe lights for downstairs.

I don't know how it works in Scotland, but through Social Services she's been able to try various bits of kit for alerting her to the phone, doorbell etc.