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This week is Loneliness Awareness Week. Did you know that loneliness is more likely to affect young people aged 16-24? According to research in 2018, that's 3 times higher than for people aged over 65.
Unfortunately, like mental health, loneliness has a stigma attached to it. Loneliness Awareness Week is about breaking that down and saying that it's okay to feel lonely. It's a normal human emotion.
What can you do to help someone who is feeling isolated?
Talk. Visit. Knock on a neighbour's door. Strike up a conversation in the supermarket. Be present. Put down your phone. RECONNECT with people. It doesn't take much but a little goes a very long way.
Marmalade Trust
Early intervention. Training for teachers and the NHS. Action in universities. šš¼ Exactly what weāve been banging on about. Weāre already getting in there and training teachers and doctors/nurses - but for the government to get behind the importance of early intervention would be incredible.
Theresa May calls for mental health to be priority www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-48658151
May calls for mental health to be priority
Tackling mental health problems needs 'urgent attention', says the prime minister.