Loneliness Epidemic
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Much about this on tv today. Society has a lot to answer for: closure of libraries, day centres and the like, the rise of social media where people communicate via technology from the isolation of their homes, online shopping rather than a walk amongst living people, exercise machines and dvds for indoors instead of cinema or gym, prescriptions actually posted via royal mail, so much is designed to keep us imprisoned in our own homes. Homes that are like shoe boxes and cannot accommodate a family to include our elderly relatives. Of course some of this is a godsend to those who are housebound or frail but is it any wonder there is a loneliness epidemic.
Yes i see your point. People are less trusting nowadays. Others just dont put themselves out there because of fear of rejection. A lot of groups or buildings in my town are community and charity based. Funding is getting less and less for these things.
I'm fairly housebound at the moment - probably 90% of my purchases and adult contact (aside from my husband and kids) is from online. I'd be lost without it. I guess the flipside of that is if it wasn't so easy I might try harder to change my situation? It works for me; guess everyone is different.
Most people just live lonely and possibly depressed because they want, not because they have to. Some people get depressed and offended over nothing then make a big deal out of it.
I personally prefer to be 'lonely' than around loud, noisy, annoying, unorganized people who'd just end up on giving me a headache, anyway.
We live in Western countries so it's not as if it's a solvable issue, it is, just gotta figure it out. Try living in a country with poverty and you'll see how things change.
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