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do you ever just get really really lonely?

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#1 ·
normally i'm ok with being alone because i've gotten used to it. but then there are times when i see groups of people talking and laughing together and i just get hit with this wave of loneliness. and it totally sucks. i so want that but it's so hard to make friends. i don't have any issues talking to people in classes, but i don't know how to get from just talking in classes to hanging out outside it. like today, i just felt so alone in the world. it was such a horrible feeling. :( if you guys get like this, what do you do to snap out of it?
 
#2 ·
Actually. I don't care about being alone anymore. I'm well used to it. Sometimes it feels much better being alone since I don't feel comfortable being in public places such as school (I hate school!). I used to feel lonely when I see other teenagers busy communicating with each other happily but I've learned to ignore people. That kind of lonely feeling comes just when you see other people aren't lonely...so it might have something to do with jealousy. I used to try to talk as much as I could in class (to be like everyone else) but now I just don't care about people.
 
#7 ·
I don't feel lonely really, but sometimes I become aware that I am by myself and wonder what is it all for if there is no one else there to share thoughts with. This just leads to feeling down so I tend not think about it. I am one of those people that has to be alone a lot anyway and being by myself doesn't feel abnormal. I wouldn't mind the option of occasionally having someone there.
 
#8 ·
I don't only get lonely when I'm at school and see others talking and laughing together, I get this strong jealous feeling. I know I deserve what they have but I can't seem to make it happen, and it's not fair.

Then later on that day it usually turns into depression =/
Sometimes it's hard, other times it's manageable, sometimes it doesn't even bother me at all. It depends on the day.
 
#12 ·
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#15 ·
I've been feeling lonely for the past month. Just gives me this desperate feeling that im in need of friends, but is easier said than done. I know how it feels, you go into a public places and you see people in groups laughing. what i get from these scenes is jelousy and...loneliness when i become aware of my loneliness..
 
#19 ·
Tonight I had to go out to the pharmacy to get my effexor. I wish I had done it during the day but I was sleeping and sick so I had to end up going out at night on a weekend. I see happy pretty couples giggling together, groups of laughing socialites, the occasional sole but earnest nightgoer looking forward to meeting up with someone that night...but me, I am just going to the pharmacy...to pick up my consolation drugs for not having anything to be happy about.
 
#22 ·
Yeah, definitely. I have a major jealous streak anyways, but, for example, when I'm at school I see people laughing, having a grand old time, and I feel like I will never be that happy. It seems like they don't have a care in the world, and here I am, depressed, scared, and lonely. It's just not fair.

The thing is, I don't particularly love being around people, even my close friends, for a long time. I need alone time. So I guess I don't really care if I'm truly alone, just relaxing or whatever, but when I'm alone in a crowd, if you get my meaning, then I'm hurting. Lately it hasn't been as bad for me. I've just started to care less about what everyone else thinks. Plus, suffering builds good character! :) I can't wait until I'm out of the hell they call high school...
 
#23 ·
Last night I was sitting, aimlessly sufring around the net and I got struck with an accute sense of being by myself. I looked around the room and everything felt strange like I was in a dream.

Do you really exist if you are the only witness to your actions and thought?
 
#24 ·
Lonely, yes, terribly so. It would be nice to be in a social environment again. I wouldn't even mind being in school. Just to see people interact would be better than being so completely alone.
 
#26 ·
Perversely, the more contact I have with people the more pain (pain sounds too dramatic, let's say discomfort) I feel about being alone. It's like interaction is a drug and I suffer withdrawl. Until I started trying to find people to talk to, I never felt lonely. "Why did I start looking for people then?", you may ask, well I found this site and discovered about SA and all that stuff and through that started talking to people.

It's all or nothing and in between is not nice.
 
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