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This page has some tips and suggestions for managing feelings of loneliness: Learn more about being comfortable in your own company. Try and open up to people you know. Take it slow. Make new connections. Try not to compare yourself to others. Look after yourself. Try talking therapies. Some people find these ideas useful.
- Useful Contacts
Samaritans. 116 123 (freephone) jo@samaritans.org. Freepost...
- Useful Contacts
try talking about your feelings to a friend, family member, health professional or counsellor. You could also contact Samaritans, call: 116 123 or email: jo@samaritans.org if you need someone to talk to. consider joining a group or class that focuses on something you enjoy; you could ask to go along and just watch first if you're feeling nervous.
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British Red Cross: Free mental health and wellbeing tools to reduce loneliness for young people.Young Minds: Things you can do to stop feelings lonelyLet’s Talk Loneliness: Toolkit, resources and supportEvery Mind Matters: what you can do if you feel lonely during the coronavirus outbreakThe Mix: 0808 808 4994 (UK). They also have a crisis messenger service.Children’s and young people’s experiences of loneliness - Office for National Statistics (ons.gov.uk)emotional loneliness – a lack of emotional attachment to someone like a close friend or partner. social loneliness – a lack of friends to go out with, or who share our hobbies or interests. existential loneliness – a sense of being in a room of people you know and still feeling alone.
Samaritans. 116 123 (freephone) jo@samaritans.org. Freepost SAMARITANS LETTERS. samaritans.org. Samaritans are open 24/7 for anyone who needs to talk. You can visit some Samaritans branches in person. Samaritans also have a Welsh Language Line on 0808 164 0123 (7pm–11pm every day).
You're not alone. We'll all experience feelings of loneliness at some point in our lives. However, for many older people, loneliness has unfortunately become a way of life. But Age UK know what do. The Age UK Advice Line. Our free, confidential, national phone service is open 8am-7pm, 365 days a year for older people, their families, friends ...
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About loneliness. Many of us feel lonely from time to time. Feelings of loneliness are personal, so everyone's experience will be different. Some people describe loneliness as the feeling we have when our need for social contact and relationships isn’t met. But loneliness isn’t the same as being alone.
