repost from an LJ friend, "Thoughts about illness and isolation"

[eatsoylentgreen]

It is often as we sink further into the morass of health issues, both physical and, more especially, mental, that we find ourselves quite unable to reach out for help, for fear of being judged....our homes may be a mess, our appearance may be unkempt...social media allows us to keep up the facade of normality so well that no one even realizes the

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[eatsoylentgreen]

I really hope that when I retire, I'm living in a pedestrian community. I've always dreamed of this but I just can't see how to make it happen. I could move to such a community, but they sure wouldn't speak my language!

[claidheamhmor]

Agreed. Sometimes I'll realise someone hasn't posted in a while, and I'll go and see what's happened; some just never appear again, and one has no idea why. :(

As you say, even in person, we don't know how to lean on friends for help.