Overcoming Loneliness
The long nights, the empty weekends, the inability to sleep……recognise any of those? Thought so, losing the love of your life leaves a void and loneliness can be overwhelming. What I find the more time that I spend by myself, the more I prefer to be alone. The more I don’t socialise the more I don’t want to. So I was reading the Mental Health article on loneliness and they have the following tips
- Initiate interactions with friends and family. Call friends or family members and talk or chat, or invite them to spend time with you. Have a party, exercise together, eat at a restaurant or just hang out. If your schedule is too busy to allow for this sort of thing, then change your schedule to open up a little time.
- Introduce yourself to neighbors and other people you come into contact with frequently. Say hello when someone walks by and ask how they are doing.
- Join groups. Participate in religious services, civic groups, service groups, hobby groups, exercise groups, gyms, and similar sorts of community groups. Take a class that interests you. Regular attendance is important; it takes a while before people sense that you’re no longer a stranger.
- Advertise yourself. Create a profile on a dating website, or describe your plight anonymously on a free classifieds service like CraigsList (where interested people can email you anonymously).
I suppose that this blog is helping my “socialisation”, the one on there that I know I don’t do enough of, is speaking to neighbours - I actively avoid them as I don’t want to speak as they always ask “How are you?” and I never know whether to put on a brave face or tell the truth!
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