Shownotes
- Lonely - "Being without company, cut off from others"
- According to a recent YouGov poll in the UK, almost one in five men (18 per cent) owned up to not having a single close friend. Furthermore, one in three (32 per cent) stated that they didn’t have a best friend.
- However, the survey also suggests that while men appear to be lonelier than women, in reality they’re less likely to own up to feeling lonely.
- In 2018 the UK suicide rate rose to its highest level since 2002 – over 6,500 people took their own life (11.2 per 100,000 people) – a figure up 12 per cent on the previous year. And of those registered suicides, a staggering 75 per cent were men. Likewise, in the US, suicide as a whole is the highest it has been in decades and as of 2017, the male suicide rate was over three times that of the female rate.
3 Ways to Beat Loneliness
- Evaluate Your Friends
- Why do you have friends and who are your friends?
- One of the most common friends we have as men is rust friends instead of real friends
- The thing we want to do as men is take the time to evaluate our friendships
- Prioritize Your Connections
- Men are created for community
- You need men to be connected with
- Prioritizing your connections with other men is something you should schedule
- Recognize Your Apathy
- Busyness can be a sign of misaligned priorities
- Apathy in one relationship breeds to other relationships
- Relationships that matter take work
- Too many men use their family to justify their lack of friends and feel ok about it
- Lonely men are dangerous men, but you can do something about your loneliness
