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Do You Have Isolation Disease?
Isolation Disease is more common than you know, whether it’s an occasional outbreak or a daily affliction. About 50 percent of my business and life coaching clients come down with Isolation Disease at one time or another. With the increase in job losses, illness, home based businesses and working from home I think we will see many more cases.
Here are the Isolation Disease Symptoms…
- Most of your thoughts revolve around YOU
- Feeling SORRY for yourself
- Being overly concerned about others OPINIONS of you
- Feeling other’s HAPPINESS depends on your actions
- Being afraid you’ll make a MISTAKE
- Experiencing a lot of SPARE TIME or being BORED most of the time
- Taking things PERSONALLY
- Visualizing nightmarish STORIES about your problem situations
- IMAGINING an illness or EXAGGERATING it
Here are the Risk Factors…
- Work from HOME, having a HOME-BASED BUSINESS, being ILL or UNEMPLOYED
- Having little daily human INTERACTION
- Living ALONE or having a roommate/spouse that is ABSENT a lot
- Getting little EXERCISE
- Watching TV, reading, eating or surfing the Web in your SPARE TIME
Possible Cures…
- GET OUT of the house
- INTERACT with people
- Take a WALK or EXERCISE
- Hire a life or business COACH or a TRAINER
- HELP someone else or VOLUNTEER
- Be on a TEAM or JOIN a club
- LISTEN to someone else
- COMPLIMENT others
Like any problem you have, most of the stress is in the failure to correctly diagnose it. Once you realize all you have is a case of Isolation Disease, and take steps toward the cure, recovery is easy!
If you need help from being alone to much, visit www.VickieChampion.com for other remedies.
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Isolation disease can be a real killer. We are social beings and interaction with others is of paramount importance. It’s easy to get sucked up in this disease if you aren’t aware that it is a disease.
You give great advice on this, Vickie.
Thank you for bringing it to our attention
Thank you for talking about this subject, Vickie. As a person who works from home I have to make a conscious effort to avoid being alone too much. Working out 3 days a week with a trainer at a gym and
going to classes a couple of nights a week really helps. I also try to make lunch dates with friends at least once or twice a week. Of course, the activity that has the most impact is my volunteer work with Hospice of the Valley. I look forward to visiting with my patient as much as he does. Maybe more.
This is a really important topic. Thanks again for talking about it.