Loneliness and you.

[Jonluw]

I stop thinking about it and have fun on my own instead. i.e. hang out on the internet, read a book, play games or practice my instruments. Same as I do every day. I am quite comfortable with my own company.
That's not to say I don't have breakdowns every now and then when I realize my friends are out partying and generally being social people, and it dawns on me again how much of a lonely person I am and how generally unfit I am to be around other people for extended periods of time. But I normally break out of that after ingesting a suitable amount of sugar or caffeine.

?If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company?.
-Jean-Paul Sartre

Basically, I don't like being around other people, but it's in my nature as a human to wish to be around other people, so it's sort of a battle between my conscious mind that wants to be alone and my instincts which make me feel bad for being alone.

 

[Woodsey]

I have no (or verly little) short term memory and, while this hinders me in other aspects of my life, it means I don?t remember that I?m lonely from one minute to the next and thus I am generally a very happy person...kinda wierd really.

... Leonard?

OT: Ignore it if I feel it. Alternatively, watch Moon and cry like a *****, then man the fuck up. And that first bit definitely never happened.

 

[Ursus Buckler]

Let the pain numb, then find the will to smile. Count your blessings, suck it up, come to realise that it's not all that bad and that you're not as alone as you think.

Et repetez.

 

[Hiikuro]

I really don't know how I'm still alive. I am unable relate to anyone real or fictional. I do not feel any attachment to anyone in this world, and I am unable to receive or give affection to any human. I have friends, but I don't feel anything for them and can't manage to believe they do either. The same goes for my family. I can I can't have a pet due to my mother being allergic, even though I believe it would vastly help me learn how to bond.

In social situations I don't go up to talk to anyone, out of a belief that I'm not an interesting or worthwhile person to talk to. But I do easily open up to anyone who takes initiative in talking to me, unfortunately nobody ever does, strengthening my belief in being unlikeable.

I have always been told I'm different, like an outsider or foreigner. I feel like other people are all living in a distant world, together and friendly, with me on the outside, ignored.

I have little to live for, reality gives me nothing but pain. I guess I cope by dreaming, by fantasizing, by exploring the surreal world in my mind. At least there even my worst nightmares are my friends.

Oh, what I would do to be able to reach out to someone.

And that is my terrible depressive episode signing off :/

 

[NerdElf]

Play vidya games and lie to myself that I'm lonely because I chose to be. Worked so far.

 

[Scarim Coral]

Either toughting it out, well getting used to it or take a walk into town (during the day not night).

 

[derob]

reading and writing usually does the trick for me.

when neither of the two will do, I either draw or play music.

 

[JLML]

I don't deal with it. My awesomely weird friends do. Well, if they're online. Speaking of which, I should tell them that I've got the tickets now... ^^ (Going over to Norway to visit them in just over a week you see. )

 

[ZRendZ]

What do you do to cope? Or how do yu deal with it?
Loneliness/depression all good.

what I do is Pen, paper and draw what comes into my mind, even if it isn't good its sort of a great way in the future to look back at how your mind works, lets just hope my family doesn't find my sketchbook or I'm going to have to explain something that I kinda wish I didn't want to explain

 

[Jonluw]

Snip

Have you watched Clannad?
I figure those characters could perhaps be relatable.
That, and it sort of changed how I view life.

It's a very nice story.

 

[Not Lord Atkin]

a moment of loneliness is very easily fixed by calling a bunch of friends and going out for a beer with them.

 

[Hiikuro]

Snip

Have you watched Clannad?
I figure those characters could perhaps be relatable.
That, and it sort of changed how I view life.

It's a very nice story.

I did, absolutely loved it. With the exception of one scene which hurt me quite bad, the one where Nagisa was drinking alcohol. Made me quite depressed and I felt yet more distance to people.

Kimi ni todoke fit me much better though. Of any character in any fictional work ever, I've never related better to Sawako. She is me, with the only real difference that she actually manage to do kind and affectionate things to others.

 

[DE619]

Its a tough time now for me because I haven't felt this way since I was a kid but I listen to music. Never forget to keep your chin up you will beat it.

 

[aba1]

I guess I am a bit of a oddball here but I love to be alone I find that when I am around people to long I start to wish I was alone

 

[Duck Sandwich]

Go to the gym. The melancholy feeling caused by loneliness is cancelled out by the awesome feeling caused by doing squats.

 

[Coffinshaker]

be busy! I work endlessly on my art projects, which is also my work, so not a lot of time for being in the dumps. does it happen? sure. but keeping friends around, being busy, and a few good games keeps things interesting.

 

[Jonluw]

Snip

Have you watched Clannad?
I figure those characters could perhaps be relatable.
That, and it sort of changed how I view life.

It's a very nice story.

I did, absolutely loved it. With the exception of one scene which hurt me quite bad, the one where Nagisa was drinking alcohol. Made me quite depressed and I felt yet more distance to people.

Kimi ni todoke fit me much better though. Of any character in any fictional work ever, I've never related better to Sawako. She is me, with the only real difference that she actually manage to do kind and affectionate things to others.

Well, then I have no more tips.

 

[standokan]

I try to interact with other people as much as I can, as Satre advised me to. It beats crying myself to sleep anyway.

 

[Thundero13]

Well I used to be lonely a lot, then I joined The MLP:FiM escapist usergroup, now i'm no longer lonely ^~^

 

[Xman490]

video games all day, because I can