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Recently, there was a HN post about how volunteering was found to be the best overall solution for depression in young adults. I'm not particularly depressed, but I do live in a foreign country that, while incredibly friendly to expats, is notoriously difficult to make friends in. I started volunteering at a local organization that teaches refugees how to code, and I just have to say that it's been incredibly rewardi…
Recently, there was a HN post about how volunteering was found to be the best overall solution for depression in young adults. I'm not particularly depressed, but I do live in a foreign country that, while incredibly friendly to expats, is notoriously difficult to make friends in. I started volunteering at a local organization that teaches refugees how to code, and I just have to say that it's been incredibly rewardi…
Are you volunteering at https://www.hackyourfuture.net by any chance?
Recently, there was a HN post about how volunteering was found to be the best overall solution for depression in young adults. I'm not particularly depressed, but I do live in a foreign country that, while incredibly friendly to expats, is notoriously difficult to make friends in. I started volunteering at a local organization that teaches refugees how to code, and I just have to say that it's been incredibly rewardi…
Is this Amsterdam? Sounds like the perfect description!
loneliness is a much bigger problem for older people. why not start there?
Love countries who acknowledge and at least attempt to tackle such issues.
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Good on you, but i think chat apps are not the solution. For physical and mental health, we need real face to face connections, in person and not online. Young people use many chat apps and even topic based groups and sites, set depression and health problems keep increasing. The more we are in front of a screen, the harder it is to actually be with others. And this is what we need as humans.
Don't you think human evolve and modern human might evolve to not need or need less face to face connection anymore for physical and mental health.
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I find the fact that you got downvoted and the subdued scorn of some of the replies you got quite "amusing".
Gatekeeping loneliness is hardly constructive. Suggesting people start by solving larger problems before smaller ones is equally not constructive. Why focus on loneliness at all when you can tackle climate change instead?
Recently, there was a HN post about how volunteering was found to be the best overall solution for depression in young adults. I'm not particularly depressed, but I do live in a foreign country that, while incredibly friendly to expats, is notoriously difficult to make friends in. I started volunteering at a local organization that teaches refugees how to code, and I just have to say that it's been incredibly rewardi…
And there is "our" competitor Rotaract the youth arm of Rotory - they tend a bit more to charity though.