I feel so lonely. I felt lonely in the past few years, but I thought because I was living alone. Now I live with my parents and I feel more lonely than ever. No one talks to anyone, and if someone talks he/she talks negatively and with harsh criticism. Everyone is distracted by his/her mobile/tablet/laptop. I mean, sometimes we sit together in the same room physically, but mentally everyone in his/her own cyber world through a small screen. It is so depressing.

[Open Eyes]

I think you are recognizing where your challenges came from. Your family sounds like they are very critical and controlling and not engaging in positive ways.

If you check out the Childhood Neglect forum you will see that you are not alone with this challenge Stranger.

[Sunflower123]

Is there anyway you could slowly make a paradigm shift in your family? For example, I grew up in a family who did not hug or say I love you. I decided one day that this needed to change. The first few times I deliberately hugged each family member and said I love you you would have thought I'd grown another head from the way they were acting. Now it's every time we meet and very comfortable.

What am I saying? The next time you are all three on your media devices what if you started a very, small positive observation or question and build from there? Just a thought. Best wishes to become closer to your family so you don't feel so alone. .

[Turtle_Rider]

Do you still lonely when you open PC? In real life, I do mostly alone. But when I'm in PC, I talked with lots of people, through I'm not too close with anybody. It make me less lonely.

I come here to vent. I feel I need to tell someone who won't judge me. But The loneliness feeling doesn't go away when I am here, especially I deal with people offline in an indirect way (not live).

[mc2ed]

I spend 90 % of my waking life alone.....for me it is a refuge alone....I do so very much understand....your words of being around people and finding yourself feeling even more alone....When we are by ourselves....there is no expectation...no one is there....life comes at you....in that measure of one.....the response is free....from anything....other than your own strictures....in any form they take...they are only measured from one....

Other people...shift your awareness....of what IS..'one'....the measure shifts....expectations rise....the biggest expectation....is that it is no longer....just one...there is more.....only to find...often...we are not a measure in other peoples lives...they have not been alone....so our....one...has no value........not a measure that shifts in their world....the way it does for those of us who are one...

It is rather abrupt...the tearing in our beliefs....that our one is an addition.....how could it not be....for us it is....for those who live in many.....we are easily lost....for they have no need....of just one.....we are just more...or less........and that can have no value....in the way....it does for a one.....we have to give them something to measure us by....and then too....it has to be enough....for them to even want to add another....one....

Mostly I have no wish to mine for others wants.....or measure into their realm of what makes me enough......for their effort.....I feel it...that lack....yet mostly only when I am around them.....for their response......is from their own graspings of what is worthy....of their expectations.....I can laugh at that....for I rarely measure to ANY expectation......

Blessings to you.....