“I kept noticing a self-help cliché that people say to each other all the time, and share on Facebook incessantly. Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression – and the Unexpected Solutions They snowball into an ever colder place.” Indeed, they receive judgment, and criticism, and this accelerates their retreat from the world. The tragedy, John realized, is that many depressed and anxious people receive less love, as they become harder to be around. This snowball effect, he learned, can be reversed-but to help a depressed or severely anxious person out of it, they need more love, and more reassurance, than they would have needed in the first place. Lonely people are scanning for threats because they unconsciously know that nobody is looking out for them, so no one will help them if they are hurt. John calls this a “snowball” effect, as disconnection spirals into more disconnection. You start to be afraid of the very thing you need most. You start to be more likely to take offense where none was intended, and to be afraid of strangers. YFA_1220 A Question of Choice, St.“Protracted loneliness causes you to shut down socially, and to be more suspicious of any social contact, he found.

NEFA_13489 Sunderland Echo: It’s Your Evening It is not a film about the pandemic, it is a film about recovery, hope and renewal, the human character, sadness and joy, what we really value, and our gradual reconnection with each other, our communities, and the world around us.Ī film collaboration drawing from national and regional film archive collections across the UK to mark an extraordinary period in all our lives.įootage from the following films has been included: The film creates multiple associations with histories and memories, our common experiences of loss, loneliness and isolation, and the need for the human touch. The past 18 months have given everyone pause to stop and reflect, to question and re-assess what is most important to us. The film won the 2022 Focal International Award for Best Use of Footage in a Short Film Production. Made possible through a unique UK-wide collaboration of national and regional publicly-funded film archives, Lost Connections draws on a century of archive footage that and invites reflections on loss, loneliness, isolation, and expressions of desire, optimism, hope, and renewal. Lost Connections is a new short film that offers a poetic response to the experience of the Coronavirus pandemic. North West Film Archive at Manchester Metropolitan UniversityĮxecutive Producers Graham Relton, Sue Howard, Frank GrayĬommissioned by Film Hub North on behalf of the BFI Film Audience Network Northern Ireland Screen’s Digital Film Archive National Library of Wales Screen and Sound Archive

Media Archive for Central England at University of Lincoln

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