Oh yes, I'm not sure if this is what you mean but sometimes I just feel very far away from ppl around me, just happens. Sorry you are feeling alone, hannah.

I must say I do like your radioactive carebear avatar :)

YES I know just how you feel I know my parents are my support system when my husband is gone but he is my strengh & love that help me. we have 4 kids so I hate to "out them off" on somebody.

I do too, sometimes even around my family, its a weird feeling. Its like your brain is not connected to your body, if that makes any sense.

i fell that way a lot i hate it and feel like i am dumping things on people if i try to get the support i need

i have litterly Nothing to do right now and can hardly handle that.
hope things get better for you soon

Your not alone in feeling that way. I have a book I write in everyday. I have a great husband, But most of that book is filled with feeling alone.

Yes I feel lone too. I felt so alone last night I poured out a cup of bourbon took 3 klonoins 1 lunesta, i lithium 1 geodon and 3 sleepyeze jyust for a trial run but I still woke up. I hate being lonely. It makes me not want to be. Driving the wrong way on the freeway is another good idea.

I get that when I'm going into a depression.

I think there is a certain loneliness we experience just because others cannot possibly understand what we deal with relative to being bipolar, no matter how much they try. I don't know where I'd be without my friends on here. I can feel lonely when surrounded by people.

I know and understand what you mean... I have a very loving partner and parents all who can and will support when when i need it.. But at times i just push them away and wanan be in my own lil world of loneliness and deep thought.. Do you think this is selfish??

I have a great support system but this road I trudge along I walk alone because ultimately it's my life and my illness. And no amount of support is going to change it, that is just reality I no longer wait around like a child hoping for somebody to fix me. I just do the best I can with what I have got.

sorry to hear that you are feeling that way...i feel that way, but hey, there is only so much i can expect from my cat and dog...lol...try to let peeps help you out even if you still feel you are alone

I have never felt more alone than when I found myself stuck in a marriage that was empty and dying.

And at the time, we were going to school, living on the campus as a family, with tons of other people all around us.
I think having all those people around me who were relatively happy, just intensified my awareness that I was not happy at all.

I think it has to do with being emotionally disconnected.

West, I don't think that is necessarily selfish, even though a lot of people would say that it is...some of us just prefer solitude, at least at times.

People with a meloncholy personality tend to need more alone time than others, and others don't understand that, because in general, people are social creatures, so if you like aloneness, they think something is wrong with you.