{"id":18447,"date":"2017-08-15T11:00:15","date_gmt":"2017-08-15T10:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.harleytherapy.co.uk\/counselling\/?p=18447"},"modified":"2022-11-29T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-11-29T12:00:00","slug":"i-feel-so-alone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.harleytherapy.co.uk\/counselling\/i-feel-so-alone.htm","title":{"rendered":"Why Do I Feel So Alone Even Though I Have Friends?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_18453\" style=\"width: 277px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18453\" class=\"wp-image-18453 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.harleytherapy.co.uk\/counselling\/wp-content\/uploads\/3921879919_771be863b9-267x400.jpg\" alt=\"Why do I feel so alone even when I am with people?\" width=\"267\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.harleytherapy.co.uk\/counselling\/wp-content\/uploads\/3921879919_771be863b9-267x400.jpg 267w, https:\/\/www.harleytherapy.co.uk\/counselling\/wp-content\/uploads\/3921879919_771be863b9.jpg 334w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 267px) 100vw, 267px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-18453\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">By: Alessandro Bonvini<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333399;\">by Andrea M. Darcy<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>You&#8217;re surrounded by people and friends, <\/strong>your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.harleytherapy.co.uk\/counselling\/quit-social-media.htm\">social media accounts<\/a> are busy. But still you are left asking,&#8221;S<em>o why do I feel so alone even when I have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.harleytherapy.co.uk\/counselling\/how-to-find-friends.htm\">friends<\/a>?&#8221; <\/em><\/p>\n<h2>7 Reasons you feel so alone even when you are with people<\/h2>\n<p>The reasons for the endless loneliness might be different than you think. See if the below resonate.<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #993366;\">1. You&#8217;ve misunderstood what loneliness is.<\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #666699;\"><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.harleytherapy.co.uk\/counselling\/how-to-overcome-loneliness.htm\">Loneliness<\/a> is an <em>emotional<\/em> state, not a physical state. It can&#8217;t be warded off by a high friend count, or by never being physically by yourself.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Nor can loneliness be solved by telling yourself to &#8216;just get over it&#8217;. <strong>Often loneliness stems from things we learned or experienced as children<\/strong> that left us behaving in certain ways. These ways of being can be quite difficult to change, especially if they are connected to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.harleytherapy.co.uk\/counselling\/what-is-childhood-trauma.htm\">childhood trauma<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>So first things first. Accept that ending your feeling of loneliness is not about <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.harleytherapy.co.uk\/counselling\/social-pressure.htm\">booking up your social schedule<\/a> or getting on another<a href=\"https:\/\/www.harleytherapy.co.uk\/counselling\/healthy-dating-rules.htm\"> dating site<\/a>. It&#8217;s time to go a bit deeper.<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #993366;\">2. You are in need of real connection.<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><strong>If there was one magic ingredient to not feeling lonely, it would be <\/strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.harleytherapy.co.uk\/counselling\/connecting-with-people.htm\">the ability to connect to others<\/a>. <\/em>This is not about being able to appear fascinating, or a capacity to talk about the same subjects that someone else is interested in. In fact these can both be ways to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.harleytherapy.co.uk\/counselling\/fear-of-intimacy.htm\">hide from connection<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Connection means being around people we feel open and available to, are able to bring our real self to, and feel safe doing so.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #993366;\">3. You find it hard to be yourself. <\/span><\/h3>\n<div id=\"attachment_18457\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18457\" class=\"wp-image-18457 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.harleytherapy.co.uk\/counselling\/wp-content\/uploads\/34308960754_09e76de2c0-400x266.jpg\" alt=\"I feel so alone all the time \" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.harleytherapy.co.uk\/counselling\/wp-content\/uploads\/34308960754_09e76de2c0-400x266.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.harleytherapy.co.uk\/counselling\/wp-content\/uploads\/34308960754_09e76de2c0.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.harleytherapy.co.uk\/counselling\/wp-content\/uploads\/34308960754_09e76de2c0-180x120.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-18457\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">By: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ralf-steinberger\/34308960754\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\" \">Ralf Steinberger<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Connection involves being yourself around others. But if you&#8217;ve spent your entire life <a href=\"https:\/\/www.harleytherapy.co.uk\/counselling\/high-expectations.htm\">living up to the expectations<\/a> of your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.harleytherapy.co.uk\/counselling\/i-feel-so-alone.htm\">friends<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.harleytherapy.co.uk\/counselling\/family-estrangement.htm\">family<\/a>, you might find it hard to &#8216;just <a href=\"https:\/\/www.harleytherapy.co.uk\/counselling\/be-yourself-around-others.htm\">be yourself<\/a>&#8216;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>You might even not know who &#8216;yourself&#8217; is.<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><a style=\"color: #800080;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.harleytherapy.co.uk\/counselling\/who-am-i-identity-crisis.htm\">Lack of personal identity<\/a> is often behind ongoing loneliness. If we can&#8217;t pinpoint who we are, then we are left constantly <a style=\"color: #800080;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.harleytherapy.co.uk\/counselling\/nobody-understands-me.htm\">feeling misunderstood<\/a>. How can others connect to us if we are always shifting our self presentation and leaving them confused?<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong> This can happen if we spent a childhood <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.harleytherapy.co.uk\/counselling\/people-pleaser-meaning.htm\">pleasing<\/a> a parent so much our true self never had a chance to develop. Or if a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.harleytherapy.co.uk\/counselling\/toxic-childhood.htm\">childhood trauma<\/a> meant we developed a fake self to hide our emotional pain.<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #993366;\">4. Deep down you don&#8217;t trust anyone. <\/span><\/h3>\n<p>If you <a href=\"https:\/\/www.harleytherapy.co.uk\/counselling\/trusting-others-hard.htm\">don&#8217;t trust anyone<\/a>, how can you ever relax and be yourself? This sort of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.harleytherapy.co.uk\/counselling\/fear-of-intimacy.htm\">fear of intimacy<\/a> instead results in having many inner walls and barriers that stop people from reaching you. Meaning you are left lonely.<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #993366;\">5. You have borderline personality disorder.<\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #666699;\">Sometimes our trust was so fractured by experiences as a child we actually <a href=\"https:\/\/www.harleytherapy.co.uk\/counselling\/passivity-in-relationships.htm\">can&#8217;t maintain relationships<\/a>, no matter how hard we try. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Are you an intense and fascinating person who attracts partners and friends easily<\/strong> &#8212; but the roster changes frequently? Connect with others fast, but have dramatic fallouts often? Have you been told many times that you are too emotional and<a href=\"https:\/\/www.harleytherapy.co.uk\/counselling\/are-you-overreacting-how-to-tell.htm\"> overreactive<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.harleytherapy.co.uk\/counselling\/compassion-for-borderline-personality-disorder.htm\">Borderline personality disorder (BPD)<\/a> is not only exhausting, it leaves you feeling <a href=\"https:\/\/www.harleytherapy.co.uk\/counselling\/nobody-understands-me.htm\">unbearably misunderstood<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.harleytherapy.co.uk\/counselling\/tired-of-being-alone.htm\">alone in the world<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #993366;\">6. Your definition of friendship needs re-assessing. <\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Sometimes loneliness can simply be down to<strong> not understanding the key elements of adult friendship. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yes, at school, we gravitate towards people because we are on the same sports team, or we like the same <a href=\"https:\/\/www.harleytherapy.co.uk\/counselling\/music-and-mental-health.htm\">music<\/a>. But as adults, independent from the constant support of our family, <strong>we need to instead find people with whom we <\/strong><em>share personal values<\/em><strong><em>. <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18459\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18459\" class=\"wp-image-18459 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.harleytherapy.co.uk\/counselling\/wp-content\/uploads\/13203226213_c1eee42fb9-400x371.jpg\" alt=\"I feel so alone even though I have a boyfriend\" width=\"400\" height=\"371\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.harleytherapy.co.uk\/counselling\/wp-content\/uploads\/13203226213_c1eee42fb9-400x371.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.harleytherapy.co.uk\/counselling\/wp-content\/uploads\/13203226213_c1eee42fb9.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-18459\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">By: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ilifeinicity\/13203226213\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\" \">joelle L<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.harleytherapy.co.uk\/counselling\/personal-values-know-yours.htm\">Personal values<\/a> are the things that matter most to you about life.<\/p>\n<p><strong>If you lost everything and everyone but still had yourself, what would matter to you? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As you can imagine, if you share these core values with someone? It doesn&#8217;t matter if your lives are a match on the ever-changing outside when you match on the inside.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Perhaps this is why social media &#8216;friends&#8217; don&#8217;t stop loneliness. Instead, research now shows that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.harleytherapy.co.uk\/counselling\/negative-effects-of-facebook.htm\">social media lead right to rising levels of loneliness<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #993366;\">7. You don\u2019t know how to receive.<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.harleytherapy.co.uk\/counselling\/reaching-out-support.htm\">Tend to say no to any offers of help<\/a> and do everything yourself? Deflect questions about you and insist on talking about other peoples&#8217; problems only? And hide your emotions if you feel sad or down, only calling friends when you feel in a good mood?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Connection is a two-way street.<\/strong> If you are making friendships all one-way, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.harleytherapy.co.uk\/counselling\/giving-too-much-in-a-relationship.htm\">over giving<\/a> but never receiving, then you&#8217;ll feel depleted instead of loved. At its extreme, this can become a pattern of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.harleytherapy.co.uk\/counselling\/great-codependency-hoax-codependent.htm\">codependency<\/a>, where you begin to take your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.harleytherapy.co.uk\/counselling\/low-self-confidence-how-much-of-a-problem-is-it-really.htm\">self-worth<\/a> from helping others and can lose any sense of your own needs.<\/p>\n<h2>Sound worryingly familiar?<\/h2>\n<p>If you find you have real troubles connecting to others, and you suspect your patterns of relating relate to learnings or experiences from childhood, it is a very good idea to seek the support of a counsellor.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Relating to others is now recognised as so important to our wellbeing there are even forms of<\/strong> therapy that focus just on this crucial element of our lives! Read our article &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.harleytherapy.co.uk\/counselling\/find-a-relationship-what-therapy-helps.htm\">The Types of Therapy That Help You With Relationships<\/a>&#8221; for more.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Harley Therapy connects you with counsellors who can help you form better friendships and relationships so you can finally end the cycle of loneliness. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.harleytherapy.co.uk\/book.htm\">Book an assessment appointment in central London <\/a>today using our booking form. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.harleytherapy.co.uk\/online-counselling-psychologists.htm\">Online therapy<\/a> sessions are also available. <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em>Do you find an answer to &#8216;why do I feel so alone even when I&#8217;m with people&#8217; that we&#8217;ve missed? Share with our readers in the public comment box below.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-117271 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.harleytherapy.co.uk\/counselling\/wp-content\/uploads\/headshot-yellow-397x400.png\" alt=\"Andrea M. Darcy\" width=\"98\" height=\"99\" \/>Andrea M. Darcy is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/amdarcy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">health writer<\/a>, and the lead writer and editor of this site. She has done training in person-centred therapy and coaching. Find her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/am_darcy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@am_darcy<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Andrea M. Darcy You&#8217;re surrounded by people and friends, your social media accounts are busy. 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