Social Groups in the UK that can help you avoid Loneliness

Social Groups in the UK that can help you avoid Loneliness

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Yorkshire Widowed Social Group

Yorkshire Widows, widowers, and widowed social group website. Offers advice and information on joining the group.
www.yorkshirewidowed.co.uk/

Walking in Yorkshire - Yorkshire Walking Groups - Yorkshire walks

South Craven Walking4Health Group · South Yorkshire and North East Derbyshire Area of the Ramblers Association · Splinter Walking & Social Group ...
www.walkinginyorkshire.co.uk/groups.htm

Social and Spatial Inequalities Research Group

Staff, research, publications, maps and links. Based in the Geography Department.
www.sasi.group.shef.ac.uk/

What is Anxiety?

What is Anxiety?

Anxiety is a general term for several disorders that cause nervousness, fear, apprehension, and worrying.
These disorders affect how we feel and behave. Mild anxiety is vague and unsettling, while severe anxiety can be extremely debilitating, seriously impacting daily life.

Living with and after cancer Symptoms

Loneliness and isolation after Cancer symptoms, normally caused from the stress of the illness and not knowing where to turn for support.

One of the most common feelings people have is loneliness and a sense of being on their own. This isolation can affect people at different times in their illness ,during treatment and afterwards. Anyone affected by cancer may experience loneliness and isolation.

I saw this article and was very impressed, but the main points here are you don't need to be lonely

 Extract from


Dealing with Loneliness

written by Wm. J. Diehm
Today, social services, churches, lodges, schools, and institutions are dedicated to the proposition that many people need to be cared for. If you are one of those people, relax and let other people cure their loneliness by curing yours.
Another type of lonely person has come to my attention: people who have retired and find themselves at a loss as to what to do. Here are eight sure-fired cures for such loneliness:

What is Depression

What is Depression
Depression is an illness. You have a feeling of sadness for long periods at a time, maybe months or even years.

We all feel sadness at some time in our lives, but for the average person, this is a short experience.

For people with depression, it affects thier daily life and routine. They don’t want to be around people, even the people who are very close to them. They don’t want to go to work because it means dealing with people and issues that will make them feel worse. There is also exclusion as they stop doing all the things they would normally enjoy doing, regardless of how important it is to their lives.

Lonely My Study Begins

Lonely My Study Begins

What are the out comes of Loneliness ?
Everyone will experience loneliness at some time in their life when they have little contact with people outside of the home. A large cause of loneliness though is when they don’t feel good about themselves, or the way their life is going. When, people feel that they have no importance or value in relationships with other people.

Kate, This is a Poem by an old woman in Hospital

I wanted to put this onsite as so few people will have seen it.

‘Kate’
Kate, the writer of this poem, was unable to speak, but was occasionally seen to write. After her death, her hospital locker was emptied and this poem was found.

What do you see nurses, What do you see?

Are you thinking, when you are looking at me