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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Why am I so Alone?

hopeinjoy
hopeinjoy
I grew up in a cult and so had to leave all my friendships behind when I left (it was small, and I didn't have that many). That was a year or so ago. I'm friendly, social, and can be very outgoing. I do have bad social anxiety sometimes though...it boomerangs. Anyways, I don't know why I have like no friends. I seem to have not figured out where and how to make friends...:(
deleted_user
deleted_user
It can be hard to make new friends. I am in the same boat and really have no idea how to make new friends or even where to start!
deleted_user
deleted_user
Hi Hope: When you leave a cult, there is anxiety in leaving and that you are on a social board after a year is a good sign. I'm glad you're here and I think with time, you will have many friends both where you live and here. Hugs.
P00hbear
P00hbear
Sometimes this has much less to do with you than other societal factors, so I would keep trying various ways of making friends. If you were in a cult and left, you have been through a lot, so just be patient with yoursellf, too!
deleted_user
deleted_user
I'll be your Friend
penntucky
penntucky
being an only child, and then being further isolated by my crazy, drunken, lowlife parents was like being in a cult.....a satanic cult, despite my father going to church every sunday----cause they had lots of good things to say about all kind of adult lowlifes, and nothing good to say about sober (no booze till legal age) me.

at 21 i wound up with the uneducated lowlifes in town; not surprising considering my lowlife parents, but for over 20 years i've been preety sober----and alone.

it is hard to make friends, without plenty of relatives and co-workers who can introduce you to somebody they know.

So, you're not "alone" that way, for good or bad.
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