What do you do to soothe the lonliness?

[Rabbit&Blackberry]

Sometimes I hold my own hand to sleep. Wondering what you all might do.

 

[Vlad Tepes]

Get lost in my daydreams and fantasies for hours at a time because just having to confront my bleak reality is enough to shatter me emotionally

 

[farewell_to_my_mask]

I daydream a lot. And go about my day imagining that I'm interacting/talking to fictional characters.

 

[kitkat9234]

Doom scroll on here, FB, Instagram etc. to escape. Sometimes drink but I can't really because of my meds. I used to smoke weed all the time but led to nervous breakdown. Been off the other stuff for a while.

 

[Fall_Apart]

In the past, I suffered greatly from loneliness, but now I want to be alone. I practice self-isolation, and when someone wants to approach me, I simply disappear. At this point, I no longer feel like interacting with people; I have nothing to share. All I need is to mentally focus on dealing with my departure.

 

[Unseelie]

I tend to watch x-files, and pretend I'm on a case wild Mulder and Scully :3

 

[Wolf Girl]

I internalize the person I'm attached to most and talk to them in my head all day. If I don't have anyone real I'm attached to, I use a fictional character.

 

[Unseelie]

I internalize the person I'm attached to most and talk to them in my head all day. If I don't have anyone real I'm attached to, I use a fictional character.

Who's the character you've talked to most?

 

[SchizoPolyGymnast]

Communism.

Lol, just kidding. I'm a huge fan of chant, ambient music, spirituals, etc. Just a reminder that someone, somewhere, is looking up at the same sky as me and wondering about me...and they don't even know it.

 

[darksouls]

listen to music
mostly Melodic Chill radio on You Tube
as a child, I always talked to my dead animals
they were always with me
I never had human friends
unfortunately, as an adult, I lost this ability

 

[PI3.14]

Oversleep and hug my pillow

 

[quietwoods]

Watch my favorite movies. Remember the beautiful moments I've had in life. Screaming into the howling fury of Mother Nature while in a blizzard on the Appalachian Trail, that I am still alive and a human.

Remind myself that tons of other people are lonely. I am not alone in that regard.

Daydreaming which seems to be a common one. About the person I was supposed to be born as. She's pretty. Has a wonderful personality. Tough and optimistic. Beautiful family. Makes the world a better place while she's there.

 

[Wolf Girl]

T

Who's the character you've talked to most?

This is going to sound strange, but...I have talked a lot to the T-800/Arnold Schwarzenegger in Terminator 2: Judgement Day. It feels good to talk to him because I like to explain myself and he is always interested to learn more in the movie, don't you think?

 

[Dejected 55]

I don't. There is no soothing. I just sit alone and devolve in my loneliness.

 

[Unseelie]

T

This is going to sound strange, but...I have talked a lot to the T-800/Arnold Schwarzenegger in Terminator 2: Judgement Day. It feels good to talk to him because I like to explain myself and he is always interested to learn more in the movie, don't you think?

I think he sounds like the perfect listener : )

 

[Green_leaf]

Communism.

This just made my day

If something so inherently capitalistic such as a competition for the best answer in this thread was made, yours would definitely win.

 

[Dark Moon]

I just distract myself nowadays to take my mind of it or sleep.

 

[FoxSauce]

Distraccions: work. Work some more. Draw sometimes or here or yt.

I moslty work

 

[tookalongvacation]

Sometimes I hold my own hand to sleep. Wondering what you all might do.

Doom scroll and drink. Trying to stop the drinking though, the day after isn't worth it lol.

 

[Forever Sleep]

To be honest, I'm lucky that I don't feel lonely that much. I do do the same though OP- hold my own hand sometimes and I always cuddle my pillow.

Mostly though, I just have sound on in the background- music, films, podcasts. Certain films/ series especially comfort me.

 

[unluckysadness]

spending 90% of my time on screens (which is not a good idea of course)

 

[jan28]

I know its only a temporary treatment but when im at my absolute worst, I'll listen to audio of someone sleeping so I can pretend I'm beside somebody at night. For a little while, it does help calm me down, as pathetic as that is.

 

[badatparties]

Nothing. I'm just real good at suffering.

 

[Kanoh]

I play computer games while listening to youtube videos. It actually helps me.

 

[deletednumber]

Sometimes I hold my own hand to sleep.

I just did this last night...
I also talk to myself alone fantasizing about having a relationship and friends.
I imagine a lot maybe throught music and watching movies but I wouldn't say it works soothing the pain.
You just have this void and suffer,you can imagine and pretend everything is ok but you know it is not ok.

 

[Satori Komeiji]

Hug a pillow or a blanket. You could probably argue that makes the loneliness worse though. I try holding or cuddling my cat but he only tolerates it for about a minute usually :(

 

[22yearsbroken]

Loud music + alcohol + masturbation+ codiene + tramadol + mirtazapine

 

[ImsooDone1N]

Well, I used to do heroin, which didn't actually fix anything, however it eliminated any pain or discomfort (emotional or physical) for 6-8hrs, plus it made me quite indifferent to my surroundings. Now I'm 159 days clean, but quite miserable.. perhaps I'm headed for a relapse. Cannabis used to help a lil too, but now it'd just make me anxious and way to introspective. Since I'm emotionally a disaster, I find cannabis just amplifies whatever I'm already feeling. So I've tried many healthy coping mechanisms but nothing seems to be working.

 

[starboy2k]

maladaptive daydream
doomscroll
make several deposits to the "spank-bank"
cook good food

rinse and repeat

 

[Pale_Rider]

yup. fantasy land. As a person with dissociative disorder I'm a master at it. either that, or go research suicide on the internet.