Loneliness is something that affects many disabled people. However, during lockdown we have become even more isolated. The Mental Health Foundation have found a lot of people have experienced this: ...
Discussion in Coffee lounge - 18 Jun 2020
In light of Loneliness Awareness Week, we wanted to open up a conversation about loneliness. As the Marmalade Trust point out: We all feel lonely at times – it’s a natural human emotion. We're ...
Discussion in Coffee lounge - 21 Jun 2021
Yep... Here I am, again, listening to deathly silence, living alone, no visitors, housebound (phobia) and it proves that life, for me, never changes. I'm just...stunned, I guess, at how many times I ...
Discussion in Mental health and wellbeing - 18 Mar 2020
As part of Loneliness Awareness week, we’ve been thinking about how closely tied loneliness is with mental health and how both can have an impact on one another. With that in mind, we've put together ...
Discussion in Disability rights and campaigning - 20 Jun 2019
Loneliness L stands for loneliness especially when your husband is in and out of hospital O stands for one being on their own N stands for nastiness of being on your own especially at Christmas E ...
Discussion in Coffee lounge - 29 May 2023
Hello every body I hope you are all OK. Well it has been another Weepy Wednesday. Trying to cope with day with this dread of loneliness. Have the Government got the answer to appoint a Minister ...
Discussion in Research and opportunities - 17 Jan 2018
Hi I became quite severely visually impaired around four years ago. Since then, for whatever reasons, many of my erstwhile friends have 'faded' away. I assume unpalatable reasons which I can't do ...
Discussion in Coffee lounge - 12 Jun 2025
A new report by the British Red Cross, Loneliness at work, explores the extent of loneliness at work in the UK and whether different groups are impacted differently. Among the key findings, it was ...
Discussion in Work and employment - 30 Jan 2023
New on here, recently moved to south Wales, son of 37, autistic and Sturge Webber syndrome. Lives sort of independently. He is suffering from bad loneliness. He can't drive. Any pointers to finding ...
Discussion in Autism and neurodiversity - 18 Feb 2018
I read an article in the New York Times on the 23rd. It was about Loneliness wrecking Americans. The problem is wide spread, accounts for many suicides and overdoses. So it's not a function of our ...
Discussion in Disability rights and campaigning - 25 Nov 2018
