Loneliness Kills
Lonelines
Loneliness can kill. It can lead to stress, high blood pressure and numerous other physical and mental health issues.
Loneliness may lead to depression, but depression doesn't necessarily lead to loneliness. Loneliness is not a mild for of depression. Loneliness is an epidemic sweeping the developed world. It is one of the leading causes of death.
Do you know your neighbors? Do you belong to clubs and participate in their activities? Do you go to Church. Do you reach out to people and talk to them?
Even if you do all of the those things you may still be lonely. Loneliness is only overcome when we develop a relationship with others. We have to have a few friends we interact with on a regular basis. The longest living people have strong relationships with a supportive family and they live in communities that provide ways they can interact with others.
Being in a group where members don't talk to each other doesn't aleviate loneliness. Social media is mostly a oneway street. We post picture of what we are doing, but unless we get feedback and start talking with others we are still lonely
At WA we are encouraged to help each other. That can certainly help develop a relationship but a true relationship requires us to develop a on going conversation. Whether we find friends here at WA depends on whether or not we reach out and get to know each other.
Fill out you profile so members can understand your interests. Visit other member's profiles and see if you share any interests with them. When you do, leave a comment and see if you can get more acquainted.
Who knows. You may make a major difference in someone's life.
I gotta go take my wife to the dentist. Let me know what you think. Do you have friends you can confide in? Working at home by ourselves has many advantages, but it can also be very lonely. What do you do to network with others? Afterall, isn't building relationships with others what Internet Marketing is all about?
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Can't agree more, WA is now playing a major role every member's life and we're really a community and we have to keep helping each other.
You are so right, Bill. I tend to get locked inside my own head.
Thank you for reminding me that I need to get out and "smell the coffee" with others.
~Kathleen
Loneleness tends to be a chronic national problem. I can be even worse for us stay at home soloprenuers.
Great post Bill.
I honestly agree with everything you have said here.
When I first started I didn't follow to many people because it was so hard to keep up with the ones I did follow and do the training and work on my site.
It is still hard to do it, BUT, I have met so many wonderful people and shared stories. I have gotten to know a coupe really good and I look forward to getting messages from them and sending them messages.
I even have one that is my Angel. She and I have been talking for a long time. I am in the SWAG challenge and noticed a couple members weren't active like they were so I sent out a message to them to check on them.
I may miss conversation and not check on everyone, but I definitely try.
The care that I have seen in this community is priceless. It is members like yourself who remind us that we are human and we need the true interaction and communication.
I hope everything is ok with you: )
I haven't seen you around, although I know you are.
You are doing an awesome job here my friend and congrats on the top 100.
Wishing you the best in all you do
Lee Ann
Great post. We think people here at WA may be more connected to each other than they are to their next door neighbors.
Those days are gone when we used to be in and out of the neighbors homes, as kids, and we are more disconnected than ever as a culture. Now, many people have no idea who their neighbors are.
Luckily, the two of us work together, as we have for most of our 30 years of marriage. Working online can be very isolating and it is important to connect with others and to go out to the gym, say, or whatever takes your interest as a hobby and mix with others.
Your idea is a good one to read the profiles of other members and get to know them a bit.
I have known more than a few psychologists in my time Bill and they have been the ones who made the worst friends and were themselves the most dysfunctional.
I prefer to do my own thing and don't let other people set their benchmarks for me.
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I do not know anything about killing, maybe that I am the overly optimistic person, but working starring at a computer is no fun. Nobody can work with you, because you will be tempted to make a break. I met here plenty of wonderful people and I wonder how they can be everywhere: write, chat, and produce great websites?