Loneliness Support Group

I can't really think straight right now - it's probably that the chronic lack of sleep is taking its toll on my brain. Nevermind, I'll just hope this makes sense.

Loneliness is that pain you feel when you realise that you are alone - that there is no-one who understands you to a deeper level than the face on the surface. I think so many people are lonely because without some kind of understanding or "connection," there is nothing to validate you. Not really. What's the point of these feelings and experiences when there is no-one to know them with you? It's meaningless. You'll just take it to the grave. It's like you're just floating about in this ocean with no anchor.

Then, after you've had some experience with relationships and put some effort into making connections, you realise that actually, we are fundementally alone in a way, because no-one can truly know you. They can sort of know you, but even getting a relationship that far can be hard. Any kind of lasting connection is hard to find.

You might start to feel progressively smaller because a large part of your identity is what you are to other people.

That's a bit about what loneliness means to me anyway. I better get going to bed now...

Loneliness is being along, not by choice, where being alone is being with oneself by choice.

Lonliness is being to afraid to go out of your own house because you don't trust yourself or others.

loneliness to me is having no one around that you feel comfortable around i think that you can be in a crowded room amd still feel lonley

I would agree with what EverythingsOk has said.
The lack of a connection to validate you. I think of all the conversations that don't happen. The reaching out in the dark and finding no one is there to take my hand. Rattling around in my empty house which gets to me at times. The love I have to give and there is no suitable recipient. The dull ache of emptyness. The utter pointlessness of a life unshared.

Sometimes it's just the act of *holding back*. Living on the fringes of activity - it's a choice for some. Seem to hold back frequently rather that becoming fully involved/intimate with another in conversation, etc. At other times it's partial attention rather than wholehearted involvement with a task a suggestion, possibly a new acquaintance. Getting there slowly - I know how, just choices - I know that the soul is nourished by full experience to seek the many activities and vibes surrounding each of us. Tuning in, elevates the mind and spirit....

lonliness is watching your life happen and realizing over and over you are seperate from it

For me loneliness is being alone your entire life even though there are people around.
I can see you, I can hear you, I can talk to you, but I don't know you, and I never will. We will never connect, and will be strangers forever.
Loneliness is having no friends, nobody to depend on, nobody to trust, nobody to keep you company. I feel like a ghost, or like I don't belong on this planet with the rest of humanity.

Lonliness is having no friends.

Loneliness is being in a room full of people and being alone.