Sometimes, when friends are struggling, they *can't* ask for help.
Sometimes active engagement is the right thing to do. We need to lift each other up, and to stop letting our culture dissuade us from doing so.
I can't even count how many times in my messed up life when something like this could have had a huge impact. (Right now is one of those times.)
#mentalhealth #mentalillness #mentalwellness #isolation #community #supportsystem #loveeachother
@shmibs Yeah, I don't have many local ones and most of my online ones are busy or having troubles of their own lately.
I guess I would hope that if we as a society started being more proactive in this way, we'd also be more open with neighbors or strangers, at least enough to get to know they're struggling, and offer a hand. And they would feel more able to accept.
Right now the suffering of people who have no one is mostly invisible.
@amphetamine Yup, due to life chaos and whatever else I have had very little energy to spare for a while, so I completely changed my focus to keeping aware of how my friends and e-acquaintances are doing when possible, then help when and where I can. So 95% of my actions toward people who need a bit of extra kindness are one-on-one these days. @shmibs