Re: Me, me, me.
Originally Posted by
Harbal
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But if you had mental health problems, would you want a load of useless advise from people not qualified to give it?
Lonely people are rarely looking for advice, they just want somebody to talk to!
By the time it becomes a mental health problem the qualified people they should talk to also have too little time.
All I am suggesting is that loneliness can be prevented from becoming a mental health problem if people spared a little time for those want to talk.
In hospital a few years ago the only other patient in my section was a lady with dementia, who had broken her hip & wanted to talk, so I talked to her for a couple of hours about things she remembered from the 50s & 60s. None of us know, but we could be in the same position one day, & would we want to be ignored?