Discussion How often do you feel lonely/alone (Poll)

[Daft-Bear]

I'm very curious if how much loneliness plays a factor in your despair. I feel alone constantly and assume this is the driving force driving my depression. How much does loneliness affect your mental health?

My DM's are open to all who wish to talk

 

[soonatpeace777888]

I know this is a factor in why many want to CTB. For me, I like being alone and have people that would give me company if asked. Everyone has their own struggles.

 

[DarkFriend.]

I'm basically always alone and have been for years. But you know? The loneliness isn't so bad when I'm drinking. Until the next day when I wake up feeling even worse. Then the anger comes. Then the self loathing rears its ugly head again. What a cycle. Why can't life just be unicorns and rainbows? Maybe it is, and I simply can't see them. Or maybe it was, and they all killed themselves too... At least I've met a couple leprechauns carrying pots of digital gold. Let's all have a moment of silence for the poor billions of souls that didn't live with modern technology à la the internet.

 

[niki wonoto]

Thank you for this post. I agree, loneliness is actually one of the main reasons I'm depressed, especially with regards to male loneliness, in terms of hard/difficult now to get a girlfriend (while other people seems to easily have girlfriends/in relationships/happy couples).. even though in the past I've had four relationships, which even lasted for more than a year..

I don't know.. I don't even know why exactly I could be so depressed like this..
To be honest, I even feel guilty for being depressed over perhaps what other/most people will see as "small, insignificant, petty, ridiculous" problems..

 

[アホペンギン]

Despite the fact that im around family for the majority of the day i still feel lonely, i dont belong with them. In addition, they don't support me when i open up about my problems so i really don't feel like i have company when i'm around them.

 

[shantyizlit]

For some reason I never feel lonely, it just never struck me to have a debilitating desire to be around other people. I've still socialized when I was younger, and now I just do it on the internet itself, but now it's mostly just to pass time.. I don't really remember why I did it when I was younger. I still mostly preferred to be sat in front of my computer than to be in the company of others.

But I do think a lot about when I'm going to ctb I'm going to be entirely alone and there's no one I can really tell. Idk I'd just like to be completely smashed on drugs for the last time I was alive and just spend some time with close family and tell them I'm about to leave.. Don't really have a desire to do it sober lol.

I just can't even really start to imagine what loneliness feels like.. Maybe I'm just so overcome by it I don't even realize it.

 

[FuneralCry]

I would personally rather avoid other people and always have done, so I wouldn't really say I get lonely, I think it's preferable to be alone as after all other people just very often create even more suffering anyway.

 

[perfectstorm]

LIfe has beat the crap out of me. Animals haven't. I have my dog but my health won't let me walk or play with him. He still loves me tho.
that just adds to my guilt.

 

[Wyldfyre4948]

Every minute of every day I'm alone. It only gets worse when I'm at home because then I'm completely alone. This forum is the only place I have to go.

 

[Forever Sleep]

I'm kind of lucky in a way that I'm alone most of the time but rarely get lonely. It's not like it never happens but I'm more comfortable being alone than I am being around people. Maybe odd to say it but I'd say I was a natural loner.

 

[alonely]

so often that its practically my name

 

[vitbar]

It is a huge factor. Probably the main one.

 

[Aya&Dazy]

I am very introvert. I am pretty fine at this moment.

 

[winamp]

everyday except it's more hidden in the back of my mind some days and at the forefront other days

but I've been alone for so long that now when I do interact with people in real life or online my social timer/meter is shorter and conversation and interaction takes a lot out of me

so I think I can only deal with 30 minutes to an hour of conversation depending on topic and person but recently I have reached 2 hours which is a move in the right direction I guess although it was not in real life

 

[helicoptero]

I'm having a hard time with this right now... I'm feeling really lonely, even though I have a couple people around me, but they all have many occupations and problems to take care of, so I'm spending most of my days alone, in my bedroom.
I was always a friendly and talkative person... But lately people consume a lot of energy from me, and I barely have energy to survive or do small things. So that makes me avoid socializing, among other things...
But at the same time I feel lonely, but I don't want to socialize, but I feel lonely... and it's just an endless cycle of discomfort and sadness. Idk what to do.

 

[Kerrtu]

Just about all of the time except for when I'm asleep.

I wish I were around animals.

I miss my boy Oso

 

[Zegers]

In my experience, loneliness is progressive, each year that passes i feel more and more lonely. At this point is crushing.

 

[AShipinthedark]

66.0% every day exactly...damn I know a thing or two about numerology and spiritually...that's bad for the species spirit...we are on a bad course...

 

[Anonymoususer1234]

Loneliness has become background noise to me. It's ever present but I only really feel it's effects sometimes.

It's like constantly living with a low level headache that occasionally becomes a migraine.

It gets old. And after a while, you just stop noticing it as much.

 

[FindingHome]

I enjoy being alone and enjoy my own company. I also find it easier being suicidal to distant myself from people. It makes it easier for me to kill myself.

 

[SpaceBoyEvangef]

There are days when I do have people to talk to, and that's fine. But it doesn't take away my urges to want to CTB and the feeling of overarching loneliness, I'm still paranoid til this day due to someone I used to be in love with, they've harassed me and sent their friends to harass me, I have nothing, yet still have a little bit of something. Yet not enough to get rid of the urges.

 

[Daft-Bear]

There are days when I do have people to talk to, and that's fine. But it doesn't take away my urges to want to CTB and the feeling of overarching loneliness, I'm still paranoid til this day due to someone I used to be in love with, they've harassed me and sent their friends to harass me, I have nothing, yet still have a little bit of something. Yet not enough to get rid of the urges.

That's basically my story in a nutshell.

 

[SpaceBoyEvangef]

That's basically my story in a nutshell.

I'm glad someone here relates, makes me feel a tad less alone :)

 

[AerialBoundaries]

Every night. It's always at night. It gnaws away at me when I'm trying to sleep.

 

[Daft-Bear]

I'm glad someone here relates, makes me feel a tad less alone :)

You're never alone. If you get lonely my DM's are always open :)

 

[nothingnobody]

i am more detached from other human beings than i have ever been, i think about it alot because its just such a weird feeling. other human beings are like aliens to me, or more specifically i am the alien with no clear motives that seems to do nothing.

despite this i somehow dont really feel lonely at all.

 

[FrostedHoax]

As much as I tell myself that I just inherently disagree with everything about this world and that no amount of expressed caring and love from others can change my wanting to be rid of this life, I have a feeling a lot of that is just me trying to cope and that if I had a good group of people that made me feel like I finally have a place where I belong in this godforsaken world then my outlook on life might be a little brighter.

 

[outrider567]

Every day, every hour, every minute

 

[telw84]

Some days for me