Dementia = Loneliness
Originally posted on Creating life with words: Inspiration, love and truth:
I am currently wrestling with a deep sense of loneliness. In my search for wisdom, I have just re-read a Wakley Prize Essay, Dr Ishani Kar-Purkayastha’s moving essay
An epidemic of loneliness
and it was a timely reminder of the problems most recalcitrant to our research based and outcome-driven health care providers.
Loneliness involves both social and emotional components – aloneness and sadness . It relates to the subjective difference between people’s expectations of relationships and their social experience. It is a response to isolation of some kind, real or perhaps even imagined. I agree with Mother Theresa’s quote pictured here, likening loneliness and feeling unwanted to a most terrible poverty.
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Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - Category: Mental Illness Authors: Quinonostante Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Source Type: blogs