About one in three Australians report being lonely but talking about it can be hard. To help, clubs and events and have emerged to help people make forge new friendships.
Two years ago, Arran Munro had a falling out with a friend and former housemate and decided to cut ties with their shared social group."For a while honestly, it made me feel like, 'Oh my God, is there something wrong with me?' Every 21-year-old is supposed to have so many friends and I'm just here hanging out with my mum," Arran tells Compass .Clinical psychologist Michelle Lim , who leads the organisation Ending Loneliness Together, wants to reduce the stigma.
After realising their lives both felt amiss, two Irish expats in Sydney started When No One's Watching . "I was going, 'What's driving this unhappiness?' And it was loneliness, I really boiled it down to loneliness.""My knight in shining armour!" Tadhg jokes."It was cheaper to do exercise on the beach than having coffee every week," David laughs.Each week, the club starts with a warm-up before a "circle of trust", where men share their highs and lows.They do a combined 60 push ups to mark the 60 men who die by suicide every hour.
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