Forgetting to switch phone to silent before therapy.... and.... It doesn't matter, because it doesn't ring anyway lol

[Partless]

That's touching. It both made me chuckle (cause I can relate) but also made me sad. I mean is this the definition of loneliness or what?! Just wanted to say I sympathize.

[SabinaS]

Once I forgot to turn my phone to silent, and it did ring, twice but it was bloody PPI companies.

I experience loneliness as this constant internal state - I wander around, completely inside my head, and it reminds me of being 5... and wandering around the playground, inside my own head. no one can come in or out. It's sort of comforting sometimes, but yes, very lonely.

[ThingWithFeathers]

Originally Posted by _Mouse

Forgetting to switch phone to silent before therapy.... and.... It doesn't matter, because it doesn't ring anyway lol

Standing in a crowd full of people and still feeling so alone you ache inside.

[Xenon]

Do most people get calls/texts from others every hour? I seriously did not know this. Yikes.

I'm so isolated, I don't even bother with a cell phone.

I'll throw this quote out there about loneliness (from the novel Ignorance by Milan Kundera):

...going though life without drawing anyone’s interest;talking without being heard; suffering without stirring compassion...

[guilloche]

Originally Posted by Xenon

I'm so isolated, I don't even bother with a cell phone.

Thanks... that's me too. Though I do keep an "emergency" (prepaid) cell in case I get stuck somewhere.

For me, loneliness was getting home after a hit-and-run accident, and having NOBODY I could call to talk to. That was this summer, and I ended up here at PC forums (on the social forum) freaked out and looking for help re: what to do.

That was also what convinced me that I really did need to be in therapy!

[unaluna]

Thats why smartphones are like those pet watches the kids used to have, what were those called? Now we keep our phones "alive" by touching them every 15 minutes (or more!) but that seemed so weird back then. My phone makes me feel connected. No friends, just webs.

[gloamingone]

I'm so used to living in my mind that when I'm around real people, I still carry on conversations in my head. It's sad, because years ago I was so bubbly. Now I just forget to talk to people.

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[JustShakey]

Originally Posted by hankster

Thats why smartphones are like those pet watches the kids used to have, what were those called? Now we keep our phones "alive" by touching them every 15 minutes (or more!) but that seemed so weird back then. My phone makes me feel connected. No friends, just webs.

Yeah, this. My phone is primarily for internet. Sometimes I even get phone calls.
Tamagotchi I think those things were...

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[angelene]

JustShakey, Tamagotchi is correct. Everyone I know knows not to bother calling me because I don't answer unless it's my sister (or in an extremely rare circumstance, my mother). Telephonophobia!

I do some texting but not as much as I should. I'm trying to be more outgoing, more like I used to be...

[Xenon]

Originally Posted by JustShakey

Tamagotchi I think those things were...

There was one called Tamagotchi and another kind called Nano. Maybe others. They were pretty popular for a while.

[coolibrarian]

There is a difference between being alone and being lonely. Being alone can be wonderful. You get to do what you want to, with no judgement from anyone, and you can enjoy stuff privately. It can be comforting, relaxing, or invigorating...whatever you want it to be. Being lonely is awful. You can be lonely in a room full of people, when those people don't understand you or listen to you. Being lonely means wanting to share your life, but having no one to share it with.

[JustShakey]

Originally Posted by angelene

Telephonophobia!

I like that one! I have it too. I like to talk alright, but not on the phone.

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I got a new cell phone like 4 months ago and I still don't know how to answer the stupid thing. On the rare occasion I get a call, I can't figure out how to answer it, so it goes to voice mail. I primarily use mine for email and the meetup app, and an occasional text from my son telling me where he is or that he needs to be picked up.

[SabinaS]

Originally Posted by hankster

Thats why smartphones are like those pet watches the kids used to have, what were those called? Now we keep our phones "alive" by touching them every 15 minutes (or more!) but that seemed so weird back then. My phone makes me feel connected. No friends, just webs.

Love this, so true! I am very attached to my phone as a means of connection via web but I hate using it as a phone. I have it on silent pretty much all the time, it doesn't even vibrate. My family seem to have got the message and now very rarely call me ... just those pesky PPI people.

[jaynedough]

One time I got a text in my pdoc's office. He told me to go ahead and check it. I think he was mostly happy that a text might mean I have a friend. It was a message from my cell co.

[Lonely59]

I would like to talk to someone about being lonely.

[PaulaS]

I think definition of loneliness is the complete feeling of emptiness, you can almost feel it psysically. It´s when you walk down the streets and feel so lonely a bird or a cute dog nearly makes you burst into tears. It´s when you spend hours and hours in front of your television, or when you look into other peoples flats and hoping to see another lonely person by the kitchen table.

It´s when you never get a hug, you can almost feel the ache for touch, both mentally and physically. Loneliness is when you think you could never be loved and when you feel a fool for not being able to find someone to spend you life with.

It´s when you go to restaurants and choose sitting in the bar looking out on the street so others won´t notice that much that you actually went to the restaurant alone. It´s when you see groups of people in the park or walking in the street and you wish you had such friends to spend some time with.

Loneliness is when yo can´t feel cared for, you don´t feel that your parents, your friend or your relative could understand you fully.

It´s when you rush home from a store because you don´t want anybody to see you cry out of loneliness and dispair.

Loneliness is when a T becomes more of a friend than you´ve ever had although you meet this person just once a week or so.

Loneliness is your evil shadow, I see that shadow every day.

Definition of loneliness is not showing up somewhere for over a month when you used to go every week and no one noticed you weren't there.

Loneliness=invisibility

[unaluna]

Originally Posted by Readytostop

Definition of loneliness is not showing up somewhere for over a month when you used to go every week and no one noticed you weren't there.

Why havent you been on the couch?? You know we have zero attention span there!

Originally Posted by hankster

Why havent you been on the couch?? You know we have zero attention span there!

Thanks hankster ...my post was actually talking about church....

[Freewilled]

Loneliness is that sick, sinking feeling in your chest when the holidays are coming and you have nowhere to be. And you dread those random people asking you what you're going to be doing, so you make up **** just so they won't have to know nobody wants to spend time with you. And you know you can call "family" and weasel your way into making something, anything, happen - but the truth is that if you didn't "make it work", they wouldn't even think of you.

Loneliness is like one of those nightmares when you are in the middle of a dangerous crisis and you're trying to get help, but everyone laughs at you, or ignores the problem like its nothing or you try to scream but no sound comes out. And no one notices , or worse - even though they glance up for a second to see your distress, they show no care at.all. and just carry on reading their book or enjoying that cup of coffee.

That's loneliness to me.

Originally Posted by Freewilled

Loneliness is that sick, sinking feeling in your chest when the holidays are coming and you have nowhere to be. And you dread those random people asking you what you're going to be doing, so you make up **** just so they won't have to know nobody wants to spend time with you. And you know you can call "family" and weasel your way into making something, anything, happen - but the truth is that if you didn't "make it work", they wouldn't even think of you.

That's loneliness to me.

Exactly,that with the holidays and you dont have any choice to go nowhere and people keep asking where you will go for vacations,damnation.I m in loneliness 10 years and i know that feeling of not having nowhere and nobody to go somewhere.

Loneliness is an inside job!

[BonnieJean]

Originally Posted by Readytostop

Thanks hankster ...my post was actually talking about church....

I found church to be one of the loneliest places. I finally quit going.