BLOG: Getting ready to help during Mental Health Awareness Week

by | May 1, 2022

Loneliness is the theme for this year’s Mental Health Awareness Week and the Wellbeing Therapy solutions team will be offering lots of support

The theme of this week’s Mental Health Awareness Week (May 9-15) is ‘loneliness’ so MD Kate Jackson offers some tips on how to combat a feeling that gets to many of us over time. 

Loneliness is something that can affect us all, across our whole life span and at any stage of our lives. 

Whether you live somewhere that is really busy or a more rural place, whether you live on your own or you live with other people, you can still feel isolated and lonely sometimes. Many of us have done.

It’s not about blaming yourself for that, it’s about finding out what might be going on and looking for ways to make you feel better.

Loneliness

Loneliness can be triggered by all sorts of things. Life events, changing situations or maybe nothing significant at all. 

We can all experience feeling lonely in lots of different ways which means there are lots of different ways in which we can overcome that feeling. 

It’s important to remember that loneliness, or indeed any difficult feeling, can pass and they can be temporary feelings. 

But it can be really hard for people to admit that they are lonely. Some people feel embarrassed or guilty about it while others are more open to talking about it. 

Mental Health Awareness Week

It’s something for us all to be aware of and to be aware of how much it can impact people when they don’t even know it is going on. 

There are plenty of actions we can take to help lift somebody who may be feeling lonely and we are going to talk about lots of those different ways across our social media platforms during Mental Health Awareness Week, which this year runs from May 9 to 15. 

We will be giving tips on reaching out to somebody who you think might be feeling lonely but also ideas on how to combat loneliness if you are experiencing it yourself.

Read more: Thriving at work – how to provide mental health support to a workforce.

Watch: What do we offer at Wellbeing Therapy Solutions?

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