Poll: Being alone.

What emotions do you generally feel when you are alone?

well about the only time I'm ever alone is here at work and then I am neither lonely or content I just am. I usually don't ever feel lonely unless I'm around a lot of other people weird huh?

I actually like being alone.

I usually enjoy being alone.

I am OK with being alone, but remembering that I am alone all the time makes me feel lonely and depressed.

I voted "neither lonely nor content" but that depends on the day. Somedays I'm just fine on my own, other days being on my own makes me crave for a hug.

i'm like BuildABridge, some days i can handle being around alot of people, other days i just want to roll up on my bed and fall asleep for hours alone, or just like passing the time alone. i especially like to listen to music alone or with others. i love conversations with music in the backround.

Solitude is absolutely imperative after any sort of social goings-on if I wish to function properly.
I used to feel very lonely as a child, and during my teenage-years. I suppose I've grown accustomed to the knowledge that I will never be able to connect with others.

I'm an introvert, so I do value alone time. But too much will make me very lonely.

Unfortunately, for the past two years I have been mostly alone. So loneliness is a feeling I'm very familiar with. I don't have any friends but online. It's hard for me to make friends because of my social anxiety, which makes it frightening to even leave the house at times, let alone approach people/talk to them.

I didn't take the poll because it just depends on when and why I'm alone.
If I'm alone because everyone I know is out having fun and doing things, then yes, I feel extremely lonely because I feel left out.
But if I'm alone because everyone's at work and the kids are at school, or if I'm in a bad mood and WANT to be alone, then no. I enjoy that time to myself.

I would say I spend an average of 85% of my time alone, but I have my dogs. And that has always been enough since I was a young teen, when Dad left, my brother went off to college, Mom worked 3rd shift and we lived out in the middle of nowhere. I was fine with it. In fact, I grew to be fond of it.

Now, 20 years later, I can't have children and my husband works long hours with a long commute, so I may see him for only an hour or two. And our nearest neighbors are a half-mile away and out of sight. I rarely feel lonely. It is usually only the times when I feel trapped, because of a broke down vehicle, or when my chronic pain forces me to be still. On occasion, my husband has a trip for work that goes for several days to a week. Then I get stir crazy.

Otherwise, I need very little social interaction to thrive. I'm comfortable with my own company. So long as I also have my dogs with me, I rarely get lonely. In fact, I get uncomfortable if my husband is home for too long on an extended weekend or something. I'm not good at existing comfortably with another human around, even one I love very much.

I picked "I generally feel neither lonely nor content" as closest to the truth, but the real truth is that I vary quite a bit between the two, especially depending on whether I have a major depressive episode in play which I'm happy to report I currently do not -- after having just been some 5 long years stuck in the pit of an especially lengthy one.

I live alone and don't socialize as much as I have during other periods of my life, therefore feeling content at least half the time is of significant positive impact.

I'm good with being alone. I'm good with having people around. It's just different is all.

I'm really good at closing myself off from everyone and usually wanting to be alone most of the time, but lately I have gotten this really uncomfortable feeling when I'm alone, like either a panic attack or a fit of tears could come at anytime. It has been scaring me lately but I try to distract myself the best I can.

I picked neither lonely nor content because I feel both.

A lot of the time, at night and holidays, I am lonely.

Then, come the days. I feel fine. I can blast my music, work-out, clean, and I am content in doing so alone.

I generally feel extremely content being alone. I wish I had more alone time!

I am an introvert and so I really like to be alone. However, until I start my full-time position at work in March I'm still on the very part-time schedule I was on while in school, and so I can go for over a week without being scheduled to work. This sounds incredible but the problem is that it quickly becomes isolation and my sleep habits get all wonky (I also prefer being awake when the world is asleep) and I will eventually stop wanting to leave the house. I'm not a hermit or an extreme introvert; I actually fall more into the ambivert category and I like to get out and enjoy the city with friends. It's just that I get very (and blissfully) wrapped up in my own head pretty easily.

I used to feel content with being alone. I identified myself as a loner. But recently, as I'm becoming more self aware and able to listen to my feelings, I have felt mostly lonely. So that's what I voted.

I voted extremely content.


I love being alone, I find it comfortable as I absolutely do not mind my own company one bit.


With that being said, I generally don't have a problem being social either, as long as I have time to recharge my batteries afterward. Too much social interaction is over stimulating and ultimately very overwhelming.


I've been known to pass out for hours directly after an eventful social gathering.

Yeah it really depends on the situation. Introverts need alone time to recuperate -- I often needed alone time after a long day at school or work, etc.

But social isolation is a whole other thing altogether... And I've been mostly socially isolated for like two years now. So I'd say that, as of now, it primarily makes me extremely lonely.

I like company and like being alone. I am almost never alone though so when I am it is great.

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I am alone most of the time and I prefer to be alone being around people drains me because it is rare I am in the company of someone with similar interests as me so I'm usually the listener and therapist.

Generally, I'm quite content to be alone. I enjoy the solitude and the time to not have any expectations put on me. The times when I'm the most lonely is when I'm with people. I feel like an outcast and that is painfully lonely.