Daily Archive for March 28th, 2006

On the news today ABC said that loneliness can cause blood pressure to increase by 30 points or higher, making loneliness as dangerous as obesity. The study on loneliness was conducted with participants 50 years old and up. A commercial came on later saying that there will be a walk at Military Park to raise money for the treatment of obesity. The commercial said that the main people in this state that are obese are children. Does this mean I’m a fat lonely young woman on the verge of heart disease?There was a time that I thought I’d rather be dead than to spend one more second alone. I the years I spent feeling so lonely were also the years I spent hopping from stress center to stress center. Maureen once said that she thought it was possible for her heart to stop due to lack of hope. Sometimes I wondered if she meant that we were a hopeless cause and that we’d always be alone. The things I use to do to avoid myself were both humiliating and extreme. The most extreme thing I’ve ever done to combat this feeling was pay a neighbor to sit and visit with me for one hour. After an hour of talking about nothing he took the $30 and went home. Some might think that was horrible of him but you know what? We pay people to visit our elderly and sick family members and we do not think of them poorly. They’re employees that come to your home and take care of someone you love. Did this man do anything differently than they would do? No. Continue reading ‘Loneliness Is Humiliating’