Loneliness Support Group
Loneliness is an emotional state in which a person experiences a powerful feeling of emptiness and isolation. Loneliness is more than the feeling of wanting company or wanting to do something with another person. Loneliness is a feeling of being cut off, disconnected and alienated from other people. The lonely person may find it difficult or even impossible to have any...
tomorrow a week for me being around ex-state hospital patients and some of the mentally ill living in group homes---in order to deal with tomorrow being a week my cat was put to sleep.
A week of spending some time with them at my nearby drop-in for the mentally ill; talked, played some board games, met 2 nice people from dropin of 10 years ago, even caught some old tcm movies on tv with some sort of mental illness themes!
It certainly beats eternally staying in my apt, to be reminded that I once had a cat I spent maybe 22 hours a day with.
A week ago I was desperate enough to replace the major hell of no longer having a cat, with the lesser hell of being involved with the mental health professionals I had problems with 10 years ago. For the best that didn't turn out right, so that now a couple hours a day to hang out at the drop-in.
Some of the women have had kids who went to college, though the women themselves are maybe worse than me right now. One though, who I met back in 2001, she has had various jobs, various apartments, had a fianc, has 2 kids in college, she drives; I always thought she was attractive. But, a couple days ago, when gray haired 55 year old me couldn't remember something, 43? year old her said, in her innocent voice: "I guess when you get OLD you forget stuff." It's kinda funny, in the way dennis the menace innocently talked to mr Wilson.
Back to the drop-in later today, though now ABLE to spend less time there and more in my apartment than I could a week ago; it certainly cured some/lot of my loneliness. And, it probably is a place and people I belong to, even if I don't want to admit it.
A week of spending some time with them at my nearby drop-in for the mentally ill; talked, played some board games, met 2 nice people from dropin of 10 years ago, even caught some old tcm movies on tv with some sort of mental illness themes!
It certainly beats eternally staying in my apt, to be reminded that I once had a cat I spent maybe 22 hours a day with.
A week ago I was desperate enough to replace the major hell of no longer having a cat, with the lesser hell of being involved with the mental health professionals I had problems with 10 years ago. For the best that didn't turn out right, so that now a couple hours a day to hang out at the drop-in.
Some of the women have had kids who went to college, though the women themselves are maybe worse than me right now. One though, who I met back in 2001, she has had various jobs, various apartments, had a fianc, has 2 kids in college, she drives; I always thought she was attractive. But, a couple days ago, when gray haired 55 year old me couldn't remember something, 43? year old her said, in her innocent voice: "I guess when you get OLD you forget stuff." It's kinda funny, in the way dennis the menace innocently talked to mr Wilson.
Back to the drop-in later today, though now ABLE to spend less time there and more in my apartment than I could a week ago; it certainly cured some/lot of my loneliness. And, it probably is a place and people I belong to, even if I don't want to admit it.
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A tree outside where I live is dying, seemingly from dog urine----with the bully in my building going out his way to not only have his dog urinate there but to have the dog urinate on the fence and sign I bought to try save the tree----and then slide the sign under my apt door.Turns out that was a TRIGGER for me----bullying and humialtion right out of high school. I didn't realize it at the...
3 people playing scabble tonight, at the drop-in, with me suggesting "id"(as with ego,etc) for one of their words, with the general conscensus that I don't know what I'm talking about, which is the sort of thing that got to me at the old dropin, in a funny way.