Feeling Lonely Even When With Other People

Will They Like It?

10 am: Adam met his friends in college; they were talking about various topics and although he wanted to, Adam was too shy to bring religion into the conversation. He just thought that they might not like the topic.

2 pm: Adam was having lunch with one of his friends. At one point, Adam considered bringing up yesterday's soccer match but then decided not to because he thought that his friend might not be interested in that topic.

6 pm: Adam was back home. Although he had lots of problems with friends, he just didn’t share them with his parents and just went to his room.

Adam suffers from severe loneliness even though he has lots of friends. He is really wondering why this is happening to him and the reason, as you may have already guessed, is that Adam does not share his interests, emotions and feelings with anyone at all and keeps to himself. This is why he feels lonely even when he's with all his friends and family.

Loneliness and depression

Lack of intimacy can be one of the strong factors that causes depression. In my book, The ultimate guide to getting over depression i explained how supressed emotions can accumulate until they cause severe depression. Talking to intimate friends is one of the healthiest methods you can use to channel your supressed emotions and to ease your pain.

However, if you only had superficial relationship with your friends then most probably your suppressed emotions will increase and you might end up depressed.

Loneliness and Sharing Your Interests, Ideas and Emotions

Loneliness is not just the state of being alone, it’s the feeling that we are alone. We may have a lot of friends yet still find ourselves feeling lonely, and that happens because we keep our emotions, ideas and interests to ourselves. We just try to choose whatever topic others would like instead of choosing what we really want to talk about. Whether it's shyness, lack of self-confidence or any other factor that makes us act this way, the result will be the same: we will end up feeling lonely even if we were surrounded by people.

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Did that help?

Yes, I am too shy to share my emotions with others.

No, I already do all that you said but I still feel alone even when with other people

I guess I'm surrounded by people who don't like me and that's why I dont share my emotions.

I guess I lack self-confidence.