This Shouldn't be a Problem

Loneliness Fighting Tip #1

TURN OFF YOUR CELL PHONE!

We’ve all been there. You sit on the couch with your phone by your side just waiting for a text or a call from someone asking you to come out and do something. And there are some days when you just know that it’s never going to ring.

Turn of the phone. Turn it off. Be disconnected for a few hours or so. If it’s off, it can’t taunt you when it doesn’t ring. This is especially true if you’re one of those people (like me) who has Twitter and the updates are sent directly to your phone. I don’t know how many nights I have sat at home waiting for a text from someone to only be disappointed every time the phone buzzes when it’s just another tweet from Pitchfork.

Of course, turning off the phone might make you antsy. Give it a trial run. Turn it off for a few hours. Someone is bound to notice you’re missing and try to contact you. If not, don’t sweat it and move on to Loneliness Fighting Tip #2. 

What’s this about?

Ever have those days where you just feel down? Feel lonely? Are you stuck somewhere you don’t want to be? Are you stressed about things that, you know a month from now, will seem minuscule? Did you just get dumped? Have you never had a significant other and feel great stress because of it? Are you just tired of life in general?

If you answered yes to any of the previous questions, ask yourself this: Do you have any REAL reason to feel that upset?

If you answered yes, this site is not for you.

If you answered no, this site might help you out. 

We all get that way from time to time. You know, feel real upset about something whether it’s the fact that you missed a party that your friends can’t stop talking about and now fear that you have no true friends. Or you’re overloaded with work at the office or at school. Or you feel out of touch with your loved ones. You know, stuff that causes you great strain and may lead to great feelings of loneliness for bouts of time, but once you move past it, you wonder why you ever felt that way in the first place.

I’m here to offer suggestions of what to do in times like these to make the loneliness more bearable, if only for a few hours. While I’m no expert, (there’s no PhD on my wall…), I have dealt with this in the past, too. And these methods have helped me over my humps.