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		<description>I haven't wanted to post on here for fear of someone recognizing me or for fear that God would think I have no faith.    At this point, I am...</description>
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			<title>Comment by orphanedmom</title>
			<link>http://www.dailystrength.org/c/Loneliness/forum/14390660-so-lonely-so-sad/lastpage</link>
			<description><![CDATA[I feel like I'm in the same boat, Donna, but I want to give you support and hugs! You're not alone here.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jun 2012 13:47:08 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Comment by Dave74</title>
			<link>http://www.dailystrength.org/c/Loneliness/forum/14390660-so-lonely-so-sad/lastpage</link>
			<description><![CDATA[I dont have a clue. Having said that I heard something on the radio yesterday. It was a sermon about King David and Depression. Since my name is David I though maybe it was a sign to listen. It was actually I good sermon which is hard for me to say because I am not religious. One thing that kinda st...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jun 2012 16:45:54 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Comment by Allscars</title>
			<link>http://www.dailystrength.org/c/Loneliness/forum/14390660-so-lonely-so-sad/lastpage</link>
			<description><![CDATA[@Dave74   Hello - that is a good thought.    I have to think about that more!     Yes my husband is very supportive.   As you know, however, when that black SOB depression hits it hits hard.     it IS sad to try and fix yourself all of your life.  That is what I've done for so many years.  Now I try...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jun 2012 18:42:58 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Comment by freetofly2</title>
			<link>http://www.dailystrength.org/c/Loneliness/forum/14390660-so-lonely-so-sad/lastpage</link>
			<description><![CDATA[I feel like I am living your life, but without the husband. I am divorced. I also feel like sometimes a person can take only so much heartbreak in life without it affecting body, mind and soul.  I feel as if my limit has been reached. That my life was a mistake and hopelessness is all that is left. ...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jun 2012 19:09:32 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Comment by 4christ</title>
			<link>http://www.dailystrength.org/c/Loneliness/forum/14390660-so-lonely-so-sad/lastpage</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Hi Donna.  I have been where you are on many levels.  Fearing God wont think you have <a href="http://www.dailystrength.org/treatments/Faith" onclick="treatmentHotLink('http://www.dailystrength.org/treatments/Faith')" class="treatmentlink" title="Learn more about Faith">faith</a>, feeling you are completely alone, even from your own family, and feeling you cant trust anyone who wont eventually stab you in the back...I know about all of this because I have  felt these things, too.  Goo...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jun 2012 21:27:53 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Comment by AndreaVictoria</title>
			<link>http://www.dailystrength.org/c/Loneliness/forum/14390660-so-lonely-so-sad/lastpage</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Fear of someone knowing who u r? Are u a celebrity? If so, u can PM me and tell me who u r. I'll keep it quiet and wont rat u out to the tabloids.  
  
 It's healthy to be mad at God or concerned u r not up to par for Him. He takes it as, He knows  u know He's the only one that can do for u. And that ...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jun 2012 22:02:55 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Comment by Momonica</title>
			<link>http://www.dailystrength.org/c/Loneliness/forum/14390660-so-lonely-so-sad/lastpage</link>
			<description><![CDATA[I can relate to this very much so, especially lately. You cant give up on you though! Stay strong! A lot easier said than done, I know. But you cant give up, you just cant.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jun 2012 22:24:15 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Comment by Allscars</title>
			<link>http://www.dailystrength.org/c/Loneliness/forum/14390660-so-lonely-so-sad/lastpage</link>
			<description><![CDATA[@Andrea:  apparently U don't understand that for some people it is embarrassing for ppl to know that u have become so lonely and desperate that u have had to reach out for a lifeline via the Internet.   I dont think myself important   I know i am a nothing.  Had I read ur post initially it wd have d...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jun 2012 12:24:26 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Comment by KimberlyBelle</title>
			<link>http://www.dailystrength.org/c/Loneliness/forum/14390660-so-lonely-so-sad/lastpage</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Donna, thank you for sharing; I can so relate to what you are saying...  I will be 51 this year and I, too, have a husband.  Our marriage is rocky and I do not count on him thus <a href="http://www.dailystrength.org/treatments/Distancing" onclick="treatmentHotLink('http://www.dailystrength.org/treatments/Distancing')" class="treatmentlink" title="Learn more about Avoid">avoid</a> disappointment. 
 I have significant abandonment issues and have been "used and abused".  I do not share my deepest t...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jun 2012 14:32:46 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Comment by P00hbear</title>
			<link>http://www.dailystrength.org/c/Loneliness/forum/14390660-so-lonely-so-sad/lastpage</link>
			<description><![CDATA[I'm glad you posted - I think this is a great place to come for finding people who understand and are in the same boat, and I <a href="http://www.dailystrength.org/treatments/Faith" onclick="treatmentHotLink('http://www.dailystrength.org/treatments/Faith')" class="treatmentlink" title="Learn more about Hope">hope</a> you find the support you need.  It is so easy to be discouraged by people, if I gave up due to disappointment I would have given up long ago, I have been disappointed so...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jun 2012 14:51:04 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Comment by Koyu</title>
			<link>http://www.dailystrength.org/c/Loneliness/forum/14390660-so-lonely-so-sad/lastpage</link>
			<description><![CDATA[I know where you are coming from. 
  
 I feel sort of empty. Like you, I try to be a good friend and be nice and humorous but when I am less than the usual happy self, people keep their distance. It is like I am non existent if I don't play a role. 
  
 When I shared with my sponsor  in another 12 Step ...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jun 2012 15:22:33 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Comment by weneego</title>
			<link>http://www.dailystrength.org/c/Loneliness/forum/14390660-so-lonely-so-sad/lastpage</link>
			<description><![CDATA[donna, i'm not sure if you'd care to or if it feels safe enough to but do you want to share any more about your losses???  
  
 for me, because i've had so many disappointments and losses it all got compounded and stuck inside of me....grieving is agony. compounded grief is very confusing to me... 
  
 ...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jun 2012 23:23:15 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Comment by weneego</title>
			<link>http://www.dailystrength.org/c/Loneliness/forum/14390660-so-lonely-so-sad/lastpage</link>
			<description><![CDATA[koyu....i'm sorry to hear that your sponsor didn't respond to your email....that sucks!]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jun 2012 23:25:09 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Comment by Allscars</title>
			<link>http://www.dailystrength.org/c/Loneliness/forum/14390660-so-lonely-so-sad/lastpage</link>
			<description><![CDATA[I want to get over the pain of these losses.  I made alot of mistakes in life.   They were my mistakes, I own up to them.  In the same sense I look back now and know why I made them.  When u have a dysfunctional childhood where rules are so unlike the real world, you go out into the real world and y...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jun 2012 12:00:05 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Comment by NYteacher93</title>
			<link>http://www.dailystrength.org/c/Loneliness/forum/14390660-so-lonely-so-sad/lastpage</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Married almost 18 yrs to a depressed and withdrawn person, has left ME withdrawn and lonely. I have no real friends....from yrs yrs of being there for him, I lost myself. Having two young kids makes me feel guilty that my inner world is so small....I need friends....sounds like u do too.....so how c...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jun 2012 16:55:47 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Comment by Janne059</title>
			<link>http://www.dailystrength.org/c/Loneliness/forum/14390660-so-lonely-so-sad/lastpage</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Please FOCUS ON WHAT YOU HAVE; NOT ON WHAT YOU DON'T HAVE! It's a paradgm shift in your prespective. See your glass half FULL not half empty.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jun 2012 18:34:18 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Comment by Allscars</title>
			<link>http://www.dailystrength.org/c/Loneliness/forum/14390660-so-lonely-so-sad/lastpage</link>
			<description><![CDATA[I DO know what I have, and I am thankful for it everyday.  I have given of myself for 30 years in one way or another.  I was in a program for disabled children and adults for 20 years (volunteer) and I also took care of a quadraplegic young man for 5 years.   I have volunteered at Women's Shelters, ...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jun 2012 20:18:22 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Comment by Allscars</title>
			<link>http://www.dailystrength.org/c/Loneliness/forum/14390660-so-lonely-so-sad/lastpage</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Maybe what I am feeling is grief.   Then with all of the stress the fibromyalgia monster has come alive, which doesn't make things any easier.   But after <a href="http://www.dailystrength.org/treatments/Reading" onclick="treatmentHotLink('http://www.dailystrength.org/treatments/Reading')" class="treatmentlink" title="Learn more about Reading">reading</a> so much on here, I realize I am grieving over many things.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jun 2012 20:35:42 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Comment by bettywalker</title>
			<link>http://www.dailystrength.org/c/Loneliness/forum/14390660-so-lonely-so-sad/lastpage</link>
			<description><![CDATA[I just read your post and with  a few changes  you could be writting my story.  I am legally blind  have been for 15 year still I  took care of two of my dauthers children as she was in a drug or wine haze or in rehab or the hosipal.  For the past 5 years I have struggled to keep my home now that my...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jun 2012 02:53:41 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Comment by Allscars</title>
			<link>http://www.dailystrength.org/c/Loneliness/forum/14390660-so-lonely-so-sad/lastpage</link>
			<description><![CDATA[You hear alot of preachers, counselors, etc. talk about how family values have changed  . . and have they ever.    I live around alot of Amish people and when you see the inside of their culture its not like it appears to be.  (it is NOT all horror stories either).   But I ENVY them for putting fami...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jun 2012 09:08:06 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Comment by kp0988</title>
			<link>http://www.dailystrength.org/c/Loneliness/forum/14390660-so-lonely-so-sad/lastpage</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Hugs have you ever read <a href="http://www.dailystrength.org/treatments/Reading" onclick="treatmentHotLink('http://www.dailystrength.org/treatments/Reading')" class="treatmentlink" title="Learn more about Books">books</a> by elizabeth kuber Ross? She has an interesting perspective on why people die and why things happen. She worked in hospice for years it has helped me think of death differently.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jun 2012 22:56:05 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Comment by Likehearts1</title>
			<link>http://www.dailystrength.org/c/Loneliness/forum/14390660-so-lonely-so-sad/lastpage</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Hi Donna, 
  
 I know how you feel. Loneliness can manifest it's own sadness that I can say is more painful than depression because it's not just in ur head. I am only 19 & I feel like there isn't much <a href="http://www.dailystrength.org/treatments/Faith" onclick="treatmentHotLink('http://www.dailystrength.org/treatments/Faith')" class="treatmentlink" title="Learn more about Hope">hope</a> sometimes and that I'll be alone forever. But what keeps most of us around is that tad bit of f...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jun 2012 01:07:08 +0100</pubDate>
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