'My jeans hang off and eating is joyless': Fiona Phillips finds out what it's like to be one of millions suffering from loneliness in the UK

November 29, 2017 00:39 UTC

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'My jeans hang off and eating is joyless': Fiona Phillips finds out what it's like to be one of millions suffering from loneliness in the UK

I buy food for later, wander around, find a coffee shop and sit on my own wondering what the hell I’m going to do with the rest of the day. I am sick of me, so I walk and walk in the hope of leaving myself behind. I can’t stay in. I feel tearful; can’t stop thinking about what it must be like having no one to talk to. Walk, walk, walk.

Source: Daily Mirror November 29, 2017 00:39 UTC

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