Category: Loneliness
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Overcoming isolation while remote working
By Betty Brown Along with all the perks that come with working remotely, such as no more time spent commuting, and being in your own space surrounded by home comforts, there is also a side to home working which can feel very isolating. When spending extended hours alone day after day, it’s only natural to…
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Loneliness- Mental Health of The Traumatised
Loneliness is the theme of this year’s Mental Health Awareness Week. Loneliness affects us in different ways at different stages in life. For teenagers, peer recognition is even more important than it is for adults. Trauma affects our response to challenging circumstances. For teenagers a common source of trauma is constant bullying by peers. Peer…
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Reclaiming January
By Jozef Raczka Pulling Hope Out Of The ‘Worst Month’ of the year. January has never been easy but 2021, has been a particular struggle. The workplace wellbeing platform Champion Health found, using data from the ONS and some of their own, that this January was, from a mental wellbeing standpoint, the worst on record.…
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If You or Someone you know feels Isolated, this is a *must* Read!
Age Uk clearly says in a report that loneliness and isolation are not the same. The report explains how an individual can be physically isolated (in living alone) yet not feel lonely. On the other hand, another person may be in the company of other people, yet feels lonely. Here is an extract: While…
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Mental Illness and Living Alone
Mental illness and living alone can be one of the most challenging part of the illness. I lived alone for fourteen years before I got married. The challenges I faced I seldom completed tasks. If no one was chasing me up about something, then I would say that task was often considered undone or unfinished.…
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Don’t be lonely this Christmas
Don’t be lonely this Christmas! In 2013, Campaign to End Loneliness surveyed 1,000 UK General Practitioners (GP), i.e. doctors looking at loneliness and health in their patients. Here are some of their findings: Over three quarters of the GPs we spoke to said they were seeing between one and five lonely people a day. One in…