Article on "The Mighty" About Life with Hyperacusis Pain

Article on "The Mighty" website published April 17, 2017 with quotes from 16 different people about what it is like to live with noise-induced pain.

16 People Explain How Noise-Induced Pain Has Impacted Their Lives

https://themighty.com/2017/04/hyperacusis-what-its-like/

 

Lex from the Philippines ??

 

I wonder who that is.

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Good to know that our stories are being told and heard. Hyperacusis is a lonely, isolating illness. I want a cure, but a little understanding from others can go a long way for now.

 

Great article. It's almost like little poems. Easy to read and powerful.

Of course the #16 is the best.

Way to go. It tells everything but I don't see vain complaining. Haters are not gonna hate this time.

 

@Foncky I should have sent in a haiku.

He tears off a month
from the spiral calendar --
sounds like machine guns.

 

The Hyperacusis Haiku Project.

 

I like it lol. Can also be called Poetry of Pain. I have a soft spot for alliterations.

 

We're waiting for more.

 

Note that "the mighty" is basically a professional viral marketing company with an eye towards drug ad revenue. That is, they run sort of legitimate content, but I have had email communication with their management chain up to and including their CEO who copped to the fact that they are presently venture capital backed (or were, as of a year and a half ago), with an explicitly targeted end game of running pharmaceutical industry advertising as part of their revenue model.

I am not suggesting that this article is crap, only that we should always question the motivation.

The only reason that I know this is that when the "#medicatedAndMighty" twitter tag had a moment in the sun, it was linked back to The Mighty as its origin, and someone on a different forum made the claim that TheMighty were "pharma shills". I had a hard time believing that, so I followed the thread back to the source, which appeared to be a blogger who claimed to have interviewed the CEO, and the CEO had made a statement to the effect that their end game was monitizing through pharma ads. When I emailed them, I got increasingly corporate sounding (and slightly anxious) replies until ultimately the CEO in question replied to me personally, again attempting to deflect, but when I really pushed on whether or not he had said the things that the blogger attributed to him, he said "That is an accurate statement".

Take that all as you will. Honestly, if they had just openly owned the quote outright, I would have thought "okay, they're a health site and they want to make money through drug ads, whatever". But, the fact that I really had to needle to get an admission of that, made the whole thing feel a bit sketchy to me.

I think that "pharma shills" is a tremendous hyperbolic overstatement of reality, especially given their current content. But, this is very much for-profit clickbait stuff. If it raises awareness of things, great.

 

Springtime in the woods
Birds so happy, chirp and sing --
Forgot my earplugs.

 

Another article on "The Mighty" website. This one published July 20, 2017 with quotes from 12 different people about things they miss from life before hyperacusis.

12 Things People Miss About Life Before Hyperacusis

https://themighty.com/2017/07/hyperacusis-research-what-people-miss-about-life-before-hyperacusis/

 

Another good posting, from 18 September 2017, about some of the most challenging aspects of life with hyperacusis.

Living with Hearing Sensitivity

http://livingwithhearingsensitivity.blogspot.com/2017/09/10-things-i-hate-about-tinnitus-and.html