Mental health recovery isn't linear...there are still bumps in the road
I know I said I wasn't going to make my blogg negative but there are still bad times where i struggle. I'm trying to be proactive by doing positive things but i think a big contribution to mental health crises is loneliness. It is recognised that older people suffer from loneliness due to them retiring, losing husbands and wives and their children growing up but young people can also be lonely too. When I was doing better myself I actually volunteered as a befriender for a charity for older people called friendship at home where I visited an old man who lived on his own and would just go around to keep him company for a couple of hours a week and chat to him. I got involved with that as when I did agency care shifts in older peoples homes I saw lots of lonely people...they lived with other people but often only left their rooms for meals and some even ate on their own in their rooms and you could see how sad they were. Maybe I homed into it as I have spent alot of my life not f