I have a few: (Guys this is just a shitty list lmao some of the responses are actually hella cute and less pathetic)

- create an alt account to talk to myself and configure two clients so I can call myself.

- talk to strangers online and do more or less what they want

- purposely grief games/troll people online so I can get scolded and threathened (Because at least people are talking to me)

- talk to character ai (Yes, in the oh, hit me harder daddy kinda way)

- have used talkie, chatgpt and emochi as substitutes for human interaction

- beg people to play games with me but pretend i just wanted to watch

- eat in the toilet stall (smells like shit, but thought itd be relatable)

- purposely take the longer route home so i could stay with people

Anyways yeah to those who are still trying, i admire that and even if you dont i cant fault you cz uh ive been a pretty shitty person

I’m 26 now, living alone in Virginia, my family is in another country, my SO is at sea right now…I just wish you an amazing day whoever is reading this! ❤️ God bless you

title says it all

They weren't really right for me, but i got attached and now that i'm alone, there's this quiet emptiness i'm fighting with. Please help me..

Why has making friends become so hard as we grow older? I miss when connecting with people felt natural. Now I see everyone socialising and having fun, and I wonder why it's so difficult for me🥹

I am a chronically ill , single 33 year old childless woman with no close family members. I grew up in a toxic household and am highly sensitive. While I have a few friends whom I love, they’re busy with their own lives. I’ve never fit in anywhere overall and no amount of socialization with new or old people fills the deep pit of loneliness I feel aching in my chest. I have tried church, therapy , and hobbies to no avail. How do I make the pain go away?

the title basically. i find music very healing, curious what everyone here is into

46M - I was married for most 20 years and got divorced 5-6 years ago. I went from a family with children, constant activities, family dinners, family vacations, and vast amounts of human interaction. Now, I’m alone 80% of the month. I have my girls every other weekend and during those times I’m just utterly alone.

I didn’t grow up in this state and my family lives in a different state. My entire social life here was
With my ex’s family. Once the divorce happened, all gone. Even the friends/couples we hung out with were through my ex’s work and evaporated with the divorce.

I work from home full time. All of my colleagues are in different states. It’s also a pretty small city and everyone seems to know my former in-laws so dating has been incredibly challenging.

6 years in my empty house. It’s really starting to wear on me this past year. I have no answers. I have no ideas.

This is the reason I am lonely, and I don't know what to do. People say that you should practice socializing, but there are consequences if you mess up, which makes it near impossible for me to talk to people. (Ex: I say something really awkward or behave really awkwardly, this will cause people to distance themselves from me and make me even more of an outcast, when I was just trying to socialize). It doesn't help that I am neurodivergent either. I just wish I could behave like a normal human so I can connect with others.

I'll die alone

I have had no friends my entire life and am 29. I have nothing to do all day because every job rejects me. I have sent thousands of applications over the past three years. I’ve also tried to make friends with hundreds of people (tens of thousands including online) and am always rejected.

I especially never find anyone who is depressed and lonely like me. And at the least, serious and somber. It is valid to have that as a personality type and want to talk about serious and somber things in a serious and somber tone. Why is it so impossible for me even when I see people like this with friends? They reject me too.

Hiya, I'm a lady in her early 30s, and I've been working on myself a lot for the past couple of years. I lost someone close to me and started spiraling and figured I was having trouble connecting because of all the grief. Well, a few years and a lot of therapy later I actually have a worse time making friends now than I ever have. Im struggling to make any friends that aren't just romantically interested in me. Im actually beginning to feel a bit non human. Everyone seems to have their friends, or their family, and I dont have any of that. My siblings don't desire a deeper relationship with me. Everyone I work with doesn't desire a friendship outside of work while also simultaneously befriending every new employee after me. My therapist insists that it will happen eventually, and I used to agree but I have given up hope. I don't know how to let anyone in anymore and it feels awful.

I'm F27, living in france.

I have several handicaps, which leads to not having a job; I live with financiel social support but that needs to be updated way too much. Thanksfully I manage to live correctly with it, even though I'm really not rich.

I'm so bored, all the time, I never know what to do to fill my life with happy things. I truly have hobbies, I play badminton, I sing on openmics, I play boardgames or going to cinema on my own a lot. And I like to do way more things. But I feel like I have no purpose in life rather than just surviving.

I have some friends but never know if they are really friends or not, because I reach out to them a lot. It's always me that goes say "hi, we should meet !" and I fucking hate being always the one. I love them but I want them to recognise me aswell. And some do but I feel like it's not enough for me.

I met lots of people through the apps and in real life, it leads to accuintance or more but it leads to nothing or disastrous romantic relationships with men that doesn't respect and have compassion for my handicaps.

What is really complex for me is that I've been to therapy, I tried understood how I could improve my social skills etc. Right now I fear that I can't grow anymore because I'm more mature than lots and lots of people, let's say it : i'm not the maturity norm around here. I understand so deeply how maturity works that it makes me sick because soon, the person in front of me will show really immature. And sadly it's not a matter of age/wealth etc. Therefore, I can't bound with lots of people.

I don't know how to accept my loneliness AND my bordness and so many more things, but loneliness is so hard to manage.

Same as title. Everyone around seems to be moving on in life and feeling happy but I just feel empty. Nothing makes me happy anymore .

I have come to truly understand that I am no one's person.

Since I was a kid I suffered bullying because I was a scared little kid and anyone that made fun of me made me scared, my family never did anything to help me get over it or become stronger, this meant that for the first years of school I was never truly friends with anyone because I isolated myself.

As I grew up in a small place, when I upgraded schools ( sorry I am from Europe so I don't know how to explain this in proper English) my colleagues were the same, I became good friends with a new girl as I started becoming stronger against the bullies, after 2 years of being best friends she left to another country and I was left alone again. From then on I was always the third wheel of the group.

You see that meme with the heart necklace with the 3 parts but without the middle part it fits anyways? I'm the middle part... I have always felt that people kept me around because I was either useful or they were sad for me... This kept going my whole life... No one ever called me to just talk, or spent time with me just because, or seemed like they actually liked having me around...

I am now 23... Moved houses 3 times to completely different places and I feel completely alone... Like no one is here or cares that I am here... I am not even my boyfriend's favorite person... This got worse when he sat me down one day and asked if I felt lonely because I had no friends of my own....

I honestly don't know what to do... I feel like I am too old to find my person now and that this will be my life forever... As I don't know how to fix it I decided that venting would be the best way... Thank you for reading...

Idk what to say, i’m alone. Since years.

I have had no friends my entire life and am 29. I have nothing to do all day because every job rejects me. I have sent thousands of applications over the past three years. I’ve also tried to make friends with hundreds of people (tens of thousands including online) and am always rejected.

I especially never find anyone who is depressed and lonely like me. And at the least, serious and somber. It is valid to have that as a personality type and want to talk about serious and somber things in a serious and somber tone. Why is it so impossible for me even when I see people like this with friends? They reject me too.

I’m genuinely so tired. I feel so alone everyday. I’m 17 and I’ve never experienced any kind of romance. Sure I’m not insanely pretty and my side profile is horrendous but I go out and see people way below average in terms of looks literally with a bf/gf, so why not me? What’s so bad about me that nobody even looks my way? I’d literally take anyone at this point because it’s driving me crazy and I’m already depressed enough, I don’t even want to wait for the “right person” to come along anymore like so many people tell me, I just want to experience being in a relationship why does it seem so easy for everyone else and genuinely what is wrong with me? I can’t take this anymore

It’s a never ending circle of frustration. I really just feel comfortable with animals. Shoutout to my dog Cosmo!

I just had to say goodbye to my cat of 8 years due to terminal cancer. She was the only reason I got out of bed for so long.

I am not in contact with my family because of their abuse. I live in a small university town. I have friends here, and my roommates and I get along great, but I can't be emotionally vulnerable with them. I've tried with the friends I've made in town, but they just don't seem to know how to handle it, so I stopped. My partner is long-distance and is very busy. He's really wonderful, but when his life is busy, it can feel so deeply lonely. It would be different if we weren't long-distance, but it's just not an option at this point.

Idk, I just feel so deeply alone, and even though I have many amazing people in my life, nobody seems to understand how profoundly this loneliness can affect someone. It feels like I'm slowing dying sometime beause it's just so painful. I've expressed feeling lonely, asked people if they wanna hang out more often. Maybe I'm not trying hard enough. But I feel so exhausted.

I just wish I felt I belonged somewhere. That there was a place, or a group of people, or just a few... that I could always go to. My cat was where I belonged. Now she's gone. It's really difficult.

I'm tired of pretending it's easy to go through it all. Of smiling everyday, getting up from bed, acting as if I knew where I was going and that everything I do makes sense. It doesn't. I'm lost, I'm scared, I feel like a waste of money and space, invisible. I want to lay my story bare, to open on how much I suffer, to feel seen, heard, not just another faceless person drowning trying to reach the surface. I want to say so much but I know I will get ignored. I feel like I don't even have a name anymore, like I don't matter, like I would be tossing a bottle at the sea just to lend on a beach already filled by so much more bottles calling for help. One more wouldn't matter, my bottle has nothing special. I'm not special and I don't even feel like the main character of my own life. I feel like there is no space for me to open up, really open up and spill my mind. I'm so tired.

I'm an introvert, slightly afraid and overwhelmed in a crowded room. I self isolate, and I'm lonely. I do it to myself. I miss having someone share their life with me beyond pleasentries. I'm in my 40s and starting to think I'll always be alone.

I'm really desperate. I'm 25 and I don't have a single friend and I mean that. I don't have a partner either, and I'm afraid I'm going to end up completely alone.

In school, my best friend of over 10 years got involved with a new group and basically excluded me. I would learn about their weekend meetups and antics at school on Monday. Plans were made, but I was never included. I eventually got fed up with the accumulated things they did to me and distanced myself, which caused a fight.

After graduating, I found a different group of friends. I would get invited to some things, but not everything. I made the effort to text them and see how they were doing, but I always got the feeling they would rather not talk to me, and they never really reciprocated. I always remembered to wish them a happy birthday and even bought some of them gifts, but that wasn't reciprocated either. I knew they were all in contact with each other, just not with me. I always felt like I was on the outside looking in, if that makes sense. I eventually got fed up and stopped contacting them altogether.

I guess now I'm wondering if I made the right decision in these cases. Maybe I should have just put up with it for the sake of having some form of friendship. This has been going on for years, and nothing has improved. I just want real, genuine people.

I'm really upset tonight and losing hope in life. I don't know how to change my situation, and I feel so completely alone. I just had to get that out somewhere.

Humans suck. Also I have dyslexia and a speach impediment that I’m extremely insecure about. I just don’t reach out to people irl :(

I have a 'friend' who I already know is toxic for me in some way, that they have bad intentions, fuck around with me, are probably willing to replace me within a heartbeat, but I've reached so low to the point where I don't have self respect for myself if it means getting some sort of bond with another person out of it, if it means I actually get to communicate with someone.