I've created this thread because of a trend I've been noticing around the general chat vecinity the past couple years. So I thought "Why not try to tie members collective data and input into one thread on TMK?"...... Since everyone seems to major in psychology here. This is just a thread where you can talk about your problems, self-analyze, or analyze others. (in a constructive way of course)
I guess I could say my plan for this thread is to become mother thread to various sister threads such as Confess!, Wacko Dreams, etc.
I'll start.
Loneliness
This psycological term has yet to cease sparking my curiousity for some time now. It is such a broad term and emotion for anyone in life.
I guess I'll start off with the dictionary deffinition of Loneliness.
lone·ly /ˈloʊnli/ [lohn-lee] –adjective,-li·er, -li·est.
1.affected with, characterized by, or causing a depressing feeling of being alone; lonesome.
2.destitute of sympathetic or friendly companionship, intercourse, support, etc.: a lonely exile.
3.lone; solitary; without company; companionless.
4.remote from places of human habitation; desolate; unfrequented; bleak: a lonely road.
5.standing apart; isolated: a lonely tower.
This term means a lot to me, not only because I feel alone or am alone. But because I feel I subject myself to this at times. It makes me wonder if doing this to myself is hinduring my social skills. Like the other day I had Orientation at Old Navy because I've just started working there and that was my first day. I sat there watching the video and began asking myself if I was still able to function like a normal human being in society. These people seemed so different, so alien, so unreal at times.
I don't think I've ever felt so different or out of place, even though they are a company established on the basis that catour to the induvidual.
Sometimes I think being alienated from people and doing drugs has diminished my ability to connect or simpathize with anyone on a personal level.
Its often hard for me to feel bad about anything or sometimes happy about anything, I just feel emotionally drained like a robot or something.
