Loneliness Support Group
Loneliness is an emotional state in which a person experiences a powerful feeling of emptiness and isolation. Loneliness is more than the feeling of wanting company or wanting to do something with another person. Loneliness is a feeling of being cut off, disconnected and alienated from other people. The lonely person may find it difficult or even impossible to have any...
I walk around most of my day with this knot in my stomach, and an uncomfortable energy in my limbs that leaks out to my fingers and leaves me agitated and anxious. My breath gets shallow and pained, I can feel my heart beat out of rhythm and I know I'm not healthy. I'm not settled. I want to scream, cry, lock myself away and throw myself at the world all at the same time. I'm so lonely that I can feel my heart splintering off and my organs shutting down. My skin prickles in longing for any human contact; a touch on the shoulder, a graze against my hand, a kiss. I want to connect to someone. I want to be able to tell them how dark and twisty I really am. I have many friends and no friends at all.
Every day I have someone complement me on how cheerful I always am. That I'm so hardworking and friendly. People invite me to go out with them because I'm fun and lighthearted. I"m always smiling.
No one would want me if they new how dark my head was.
I need someone to touch ME. To connect with ME. and to accept ME for all of my crazy, warped, and twisted ways. I want someone to connect with who I really am. It's so lonely being trapped in my head with no one else. I"m so lonely pretending to be ok all the time. Who are they to decide that dark and twisty me isn't ok anyways!?
I'm married. I have lots of "friends", a wonderful family, a good job.
I've never been this lonely and heart broken.
Every day I have someone complement me on how cheerful I always am. That I'm so hardworking and friendly. People invite me to go out with them because I'm fun and lighthearted. I"m always smiling.
No one would want me if they new how dark my head was.
I need someone to touch ME. To connect with ME. and to accept ME for all of my crazy, warped, and twisted ways. I want someone to connect with who I really am. It's so lonely being trapped in my head with no one else. I"m so lonely pretending to be ok all the time. Who are they to decide that dark and twisty me isn't ok anyways!?
I'm married. I have lots of "friends", a wonderful family, a good job.
I've never been this lonely and heart broken.
Christian darkness...interesting...
My best friend is bi-polar, and I have seen how it isolated him from other folks, it didn't take much time to call him a friend, we first met within a group of adults for a bible study. Bible study is a good springboard for opening up our lives with each other. Although I lived four years in that town--there were my favorite years--because of the friendships developed. As friends we looked out for my friend when he was dealing with his bi-polar effects.
One of the ways I dealt with my loneliness was to immerse myself in work, be it school work, my job. My other passion was in building up and strengthening my faith in God, I do this by writing stories about my faith.
For me, all my physical struggles with my disease, my extreme sense of being alone has kept me close to the Lord. Today, I thank God for my disease, but I still do ask God to be healed physically, and I always ask to be healed from the pain I have hidden away from others--but know that the Lord knows you like no one else in this world.
Take care,
I came on here to support people and hopefully to find some true friends. But I find it is the same on here with some people. They say oh yes I am your friend. And that is it! A friend link and it is done. Then nothing.
Make the most of each minute of each day. If you are thinking you have to get through three hours of being awful till bedtime make it the best three hours it can be. Maybe cook yourself a delicious meal or plan something tasty for the day after, watch a favourite film, write to a friend if you have one you can write to if you cannot phone them or see them, do anything that makes you feel less lonely or more special or gives you some pleasure in life.
Because if you don't nobody else will do it for you.