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...

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I feel alone

manic0923
manic0923

Not just “I don’t have people around” alone. I mean that kind of alone where even when I’m surrounded, I still feel like I’m floating in a different world. Like I could vanish and no one would really notice. Or maybe they would… but not for long.


I’ve lost a lot—friendships, connections, trust. Some people left without a word. Some I pushed away. Some just… faded. And now it’s like I’m sitting in the quiet, trying to remember what it felt like to be loved without needing to perform or apologize for existing.


I don’t need fixing. I’m not looking for pity. I just want to know I’m not the only one feeling like this. That maybe someone out there gets it—that aching quiet, that numb weight, that whisper that says “you’re too much” when all you want is to be enough for someone.


If you’ve felt this too… I’d really like to hear from you.


 

JazzyLady
JazzyLady
It is hard to mull around day to day on this blue planet. A few years ago I felt like I had fallen off the real world and landed on a plateau. Isolated and disconnected. Feeling numb - like not having emotions. It's so difficult when you do not have a support system. Every day life is exhausting. Yes, and one by one people exit your life. I am listening.
hasty_05
hasty_05
I am currently in a transition where I am learning to stand on my own two feet by myself. Instead of trying to always lean on others. Some people I have had to reduce contact and some people reduced contact on me.

My loneliness is when I tell myself I have no friends and no one likes me. It feels like my heart is being squeezed. But that is not true. And I know I have to make an effort and be a good friend (not leaning on them all the time). I am working on myself.

We can't be enough for others until we are enough for ourselves. Those of us that have issues that need to be fixed will not find a healthy and peaceful and loving relationship until we make those fixes inside of ourselves.

We are listening and I find your take on your life interesting and food for thought. Thank you for sharing.

Welcome to this sometimes slow forum. Stick around, still some very nice people on here. Give support to others also.
mlr0853
mlr0853
Coming from a perspective of 40 years dealing with bp, now mostly major depression, at almost 72 I too feel alone, no friends for similar reasons as you and by choice.

I like being alone, but not 'lonely'...the lonely comes when I allow my mind to wander down the rabbit hole of negativity, which leads to despair.

I hope you'll come over to the BP room, I do a post there called Wondering? Starting tomorrow, it will be a daily post It's a slow room, but the people are kind and many long term.

You are Not Alone while DS is functioning :) Hugs
Metoo2012
Metoo2012
Yes,I can totally relate with this feeling .I used to have friends and family .Few left ,few I pushed away coz I started to see through their passive aggressive words. now left alone …it’s so hard each day feeling so lonely and each day missing that feeling of being cared or loved,hoping to meet someone miraculously that would always stay and never hurt or leave.Sometimes I pity my own life wondering how all this is Such a waste of human life
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