engleski

Seeking helpness in feeling of painfull loneliness

Introduction: Loneliness constitutes a destructive form of self-perception. The lonely feel left out, forgotten, unneeded and ignored. Aim: To evident the person of helping in the condition of painfull feeling of loneliness. Individuals and methods: For this research one's own short questionaire was used in adult respondent individuals in the condition of voluntariness. Respondents had to circularize one of six offered persons ( general medical practitioner, psychiatrist, psychologist, hagiotherapeut, prist and person for alternative care ) in whom they would seek helping for their painfull feeling of loneliness. This research was realised during January 2015 in Rijeka and Opatija ( Croatia). The results were analyze by the descriptive method. Results: 52 persons ( m-18, f-34 ) participated in the research. Men as well as females usually would seek helpness in a psychologist for their feeling of painfull loneliness (total-20 i.e. 38% ), after that is the position of psychiatrist ( total-11 i.e.21 % ) and the third position was devided quite equally between others ( total- 5 to 6 i.e. about 10%). Instead of conclusion: Results of this research show that the feeling of painfull loneliness is more conceived as one psychological problem than one psychiatric, moral / ethical or general medical suffering.

loneliness; feeling of painful suffering

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