What makes us happy in life? The first answer that comes to mind is money and fame. But how many of us, who are doing professionally well try to un-address a thought that we do feel bad when we go home and open an empty apartment or when we find our family members don’t have time for us.
You could be surrounded by people throughout your day and still be experiencing a deep, pervasive loneliness. Today a large number of people, knowingly and unknowingly are suffering from loneliness.
Unfortunately, loneliness has serious detrimental effects on one's mental and physical health. It can weaken a person’s immune system as well as it can distort the perception of person’s relationships – leading to a situation where the person turns incapable to maintain valuable relationships.
Psychologist Shivani Misri Sadhoo suggests people can be lonely without realising it. Here are some signs that can help a person to identify if they are suffering from suppressed loneliness that needs help:-
- Feeling lonely amongst all: if a person commonly feels lonely among his / her friends and relatives or the person generally feels disconnected from most of the people he/she meets daily, this could be a sign that the person is suffering from suppressed loneliness.
- When a person no longer shares his/her deepest feelings, thoughts and experiences with his/her spouse with any identified reasons. This could be signs for cause and suffering of loneliness.
- If a person repeatedly falls in the wrong relationship; chances are that the person’s perception of reality has been distorted due to an acute need to recover from loneliness.
- When an isolated situation can make a person’s body feel like under attack, the feeling of loneliness can cause his / her blood pressure and palpitation to shoot up.
Shivani Misri Sadhoo is an eminent psychologist in Delhi, you can contact her are at +91-8860875040 or at saarthiforlife@gmail.com
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