22-08-2016, 10:19 PM
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Unfortunately, it's not only the elderly. There are those young people with mental health issues. Not so severe to be in care or under supervision. Those who live at home but can't manage life too well. Maybe emotional breakdowns or due to stress etc. That is when their friends move on , not knowing how to deal with it , but they are the very people who are needed at such times. They are more needed than a Psychiatrist, or box of pills.It doesn't happen and the sufferer ends up in a worse place through complete isolation from interaction .
Heart breaking.
23-08-2016, 12:57 AM
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This story kinda sums it all up for me ...Italian police cook up a pasta feast for an elderly couple they heard crying from loneliness in their flat… and it’s melting people’s hearts
https://www.thesun.co.uk/living/1578...eoples-hearts/
The damn news and life had got the better of them.
23-08-2016, 01:11 AM
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Yes, it is so very sad Mark, and I'm sure there are many people, who would so appreciate a knock on the door from a neighbour just to say Hi and spend a few minutes with them.I am lucky at the moment, because I can still go out, drive, socialise, and make friends if I choose, but one day I may not be able to, and it scares me.
There is a small organisation down town here, that offers a "Befriending service" to lonely people. Befrienders have to be police checked etc.and it is on an entirely voluntary basis.
I put my name down a while back to become one of their befrienders, but I had a difficult trauma to deal with at the time of the interview, so had to pull out. I will go back though, and offer my help again.
23-08-2016, 02:18 AM
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Originally Posted by Mups
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Yes, it is so very sad Mark, and I'm sure there are many people, who would so appreciate a knock on the door from a neighbour just to say Hi and spend a few minutes with them.I am lucky at the moment, because I can still go out, drive, socialise, and make friends if I choose, but one day I may not be able to, and it scares me.
There is a small organisation down town here, that offers a "Befriending service" to lonely people. Befrienders have to be police checked etc.and it is on an entirely voluntary basis.
I put my name down a while back to become one of their befrienders, but I had a difficult trauma to deal with at the time of the interview, so had to pull out. I will go back though, and offer my help again.
23-08-2016, 07:20 AM
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Originally Posted by Puddle Duck
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Unfortunately, it's not only the elderly. There are those young people with mental health issues. Not so severe to be in care or under supervision. Those who live at home but can't manage life too well. Maybe emotional breakdowns or due to stress etc. That is when their friends move on , not knowing how to deal with it , but they are the very people who are needed at such times. They are more needed than a Psychiatrist, or box of pills. It doesn't happen and the sufferer ends up in a worse place through complete isolation from interaction .
Heart breaking.
23-08-2016, 08:02 AM
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Originally Posted by Puddle Duck
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Unfortunately, it's not only the elderly. There are those young people with mental health issues. Not so severe to be in care or under supervision. Those who live at home but can't manage life too well. Maybe emotional breakdowns or due to stress etc. That is when their friends move on , not knowing how to deal with it , but they are the very people who are needed at such times. They are more needed than a Psychiatrist, or box of pills. It doesn't happen and the sufferer ends up in a worse place through complete isolation from interaction .
Heart breaking.
Thank you for putting it so concisely.
23-08-2016, 08:26 AM
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Originally Posted by mups
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i think it really sad that some people are still isolated and lonely in this day and age. There are so many activities and things they can join where i live, but i guess it is not that straight forward if you are unable to get out unassisted.
There are also those who find joining anything impossible, because of their innate shyness, or phobias, or inability to integrate easily.
23-08-2016, 08:59 AM
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Originally Posted by Nom
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And there are plenty more that would not. Living alone and keeping to yourself does not always equate to loneliness.
We had a new person who moved into the hamlet (a terrible gossip and very religious ) who was forever knocking on the door to offer invitations to attend her coffee morning or mince pies and mulled wine.
She would put one foot over the threshold and clearly thought she should be invited in.
I was really difficult keeping her out and avoiding attending her functions without appearing very rude.
Thank goodness she has just moved and I am now safe from invasions of my personal space by an unwanted caller.
23-08-2016, 09:06 AM
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Originally Posted by Rachel
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There are also those who find joining anything impossible, because of their innate shyness, or phobias, or inability to integrate easily.
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23-08-2016, 09:08 AM
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Our parish council put me in touch with a "village agent" when I needed help getting a disabled space, she helped by talking to the Council for me.However, she noted that I was on my own most of the time with youngest away at uni.
She went on and on about me joining groups and clubs, actually told two women that I was joining their knitting group and would be helping with a children's church craft thing!
No thanks!
I can't think why a member of "The League of Evil Steampunks" would fit in somehow!
Anyway, my Steampunk group, which I run, was in the Parish magazine a couple of months later, I haven't heard from her lately!
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