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10 Ways to Support an Ill or Injured Loved One

By Cindy Batchelor — 2018

Whether a permanent disability, a severe injury, an illness, or a mental health issue, an immobilizing condition can be emotionally devastating for the sufferer. Isolation can bleed into loneliness which can quickly turn into depression, all the while plummeting feelings of self-worth.

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We meet no ordinary people in our lives.

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WWII Vet forms Unlikely Friendship with Toddler

3.5 year-old Emmet has an unusual friendship with his neighbor, 89.5 year-old Erling. The two are nearly inseparable. You always hope that a tale such as this one will result in a happy ending, but life just isn't that simple . . .

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Being an Abandoned Child | Brendan Maguire | TEDxNSCCWaterfront

Brendan’s community became his home when he moved from house to house after his parents left him with his three brothers and a sister when he was 4 at a shopping mall. They never came back.

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2016
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There’s a widespread belief that if you have solid self-esteem you don’t need outside affirmation and praise. This is patently untrue, by the way.

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Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our natural lives.

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People who bore one another should meet seldom; people who interest one another, often.

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Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him.

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We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.

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What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.

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Friendship . . . is born at the moment when one man says to another, ‘What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .’

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Handling a Loved One’s Illness