"When I went to bed, I couldn't sleep, I could only cry"

Amor says that she has felt alone "practically her whole life" , but that this feeling increased even more when her husband and daughter fell ill at the same time. "I saw that I had to do everything myself, that I had to work to keep the house going and that no one was helping me", she recalls, still emotional. That was when she collapsed and, without time to recover, her husband died.

Unwanted loneliness can affect people of any age, but this feeling can be more present in older people, and even more so among women, often related to the loss of loved ones. Love experienced a loneliness that led her to a depression , which she describes this way: " I couldn't lift my head, I was like in a very deep well from which I couldn't get out. I was sitting on the sofa and I only saw my husband everywhere; I would go to bed and I couldn't sleep, I could only cry; I wouldn't leave the house, unless it was to go shopping."

This strong and laughing woman, who wanted to get away from this discomfort, saw that the strategy was to get out of the house and do activities in her neighborhood: computer science, mandala workshops, manual work... But where she really felt that she was resurfacing was, as she explains, in the support group "Acompaniment la soledad" , promoted by the Sant Joan de Déu Health Park. " In this group, little by little, I saw that I was happier. And when I was already well, I started doing other activities, such as yoga, outings in the neighborhood...", she says proudly. Now she says that she feels good and that she is clear about one thing: "I am already of a certain age and I want to be calm until my time comes. This is the mentality I have now."

Unwanted loneliness, what are we talking about?

Ir al artículo