Identifying loneliness: 7 signs to look out for
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By Angela Caley, Operations Manager at Linking Lives UK
We can all feel lonely at times. It’s part and parcel of being human. No matter our age, background, ethnicity – we can and do all feel lonely sometimes. Generally though, it’s a feeling that visits us occasionally: it comes and goes. It doesn’t stay.
But sometimes loneliness does stay. Rather than being a visitor, it’s more like an unwanted guest that takes up residency in our lives. Sometimes this happens suddenly, but more often than not it happens gradually. So gradually that we don’t even realise it.
And there-in lies the danger of loneliness: It’s living right alongside us, like an invisible toxin, but we don’t even realise it.
As long as loneliness remains undetected in our lives, we are unlikely to do anything about it. In this article, I’m going to suggest seven telltale signs of when feelings of loneliness outstay their visit.
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