Do you get lonely?

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31 Mar 2011, 4:41 pm

Do you get lonely sometimes? I'm usually happy to be left alone, but occasionally I do feel that I need some human contact.

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31 Mar 2011, 4:49 pm

I have no family, live alone and retired young due to early success in my career, yes I can be lonely.

The beach and my club friends are my only social places now

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31 Mar 2011, 5:43 pm

The closest I have been to lonely is when there is a specific person I want to talk to, and that person is not available.

But that is not loneliness, it's more like... needing to discuss a specific thing and not being able to. Most of the time I am fine being alone. I think my longest without face-to-face human interaction has been five days or so, although I wouldn't swear to it.

Before the internet, I'd just read books all day.

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31 Mar 2011, 5:49 pm

I only get lonely if I have to be with a group of people I don't relate to.

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31 Mar 2011, 5:55 pm

Sometimes? Yes. Not often though. I might get lonely more often if it weren't for the internet. It fills my social interaction quota without having to be around people.

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31 Mar 2011, 6:30 pm

Its weird for me I am always lonely but when people come over I can't wait for them to leave. :roll:

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31 Mar 2011, 6:36 pm

I haven't felt lonely in years.

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31 Mar 2011, 6:39 pm

By the end of a 7 hour long school day, being with someone else is not something I could ever want.

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31 Mar 2011, 6:49 pm

alexptrans wrote:

Do you get lonely sometimes? I'm usually happy to be left alone, but occasionally I do feel that I need some human contact.

I do feel the same way that I do need human contact hours after being alone.

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31 Mar 2011, 6:57 pm

Most definitely. I think I live in a constant state of loneliness now but I have just become numb to it. But it finds ways of coming out... in the form of depression and anxiety.

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31 Mar 2011, 8:10 pm

Sometimes when I haven't had any human contact for a while and don't expect any soon, I get anxious. I guess that's loneliness. Other times I can go a couple days alone without a care.

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31 Mar 2011, 8:41 pm

I get lonely. A lot. :\

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31 Mar 2011, 8:55 pm

I do.

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31 Mar 2011, 9:18 pm

The only time I get lonely is after I lose someone important to me, and I'm not sure whether that is true loneliness or a reaction to the loss.

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31 Mar 2011, 10:11 pm

I need a lot less human contact than normal (I think), but I've found that there is a lower limit below which my mental health starts falling apart.

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31 Mar 2011, 10:22 pm

I am happy to be left alone to do my own thing up until may be a year or two ago.

I do feel very lonely at times.

I fear that if something happens to me, I might have no one to turn to!

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