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28. “Sometimes you have to stand alone just to make sure you still can.” —Anonymous 29. “People think being alone makes you lonely, but I don’t think that’s true.
The loneliness of dementia. ... Here are 104 chronic illness quotes to uplift, encourage and inspire you, ... Having feelings doesn’t make you a negative person. It makes you human.”
A common theme, among children and young adults dealing with feelings of loneliness is they didn't know help was available, or where to get help. Loneliness, to them, is a source of shame. [104] Older people can also struggle with feelings of severe loneliness which lead them to consider acting on thoughts of suicide or self-harm.
True social isolation over years and decades can be a chronic condition affecting all aspects of a person's existence. Social isolation can lead to feelings of loneliness, fear of others, or negative self-esteem. Lack of consistent human contact can also cause conflict with (peripheral) friends.
Emptiness as a human condition is a sense of generalized boredom, social alienation, nihilism and apathy.Feelings of emptiness often accompany dysthymia, [1] depression, loneliness, anhedonia, despair, or other mental/emotional disorders, including schizoid personality disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, schizotypal personality disorder and ...
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Much work in psychology has focused on feelings of social isolation and/or loneliness. [4] Only recently have psychologists begun to explore the concept of existential isolation. [2] Existential isolation is the subjective sense that persons are alone in their experience and that others are unable to understand their perspective.
This feeling of emptiness, it turns out, is not just an American phenomenon. In the Netherlands, where gay marriage has been legal since 2001, gay men remain three times more likely to suffer from a mood disorder than straight men, and 10 times more likely to engage in “suicidal self-harm.”