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Ernest Asiedu Caesar
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Coping With Loneliness
July 12, 2004 - 02:00 AM
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COPING WITH LONELINESS
Change is sometimes followed by loneliness. Saying goodbye to old friends when you move, missing a family member after divorced, coping with the loss of someone special after a death-all of these can bring feeling of loneliness.
Most loneness passes in time. If it turns into depression, low self-esteem, and alienation from others, however, loneness should not be ignored.
Taking steps like these will help:
 Talk to someone about your feelings. A parent, sibling, friend, or trusted teacher or religious leader can help.
 Maintain a relationship with your parents. Share your joys and sorrows. Make an effort to share activities.
 Speak to someone you would like to get to know better. Make the first friendly gesture.
 Find ways to help others. Even small acts of kindness build relationships.
 Get involved in school activities. Volunteer-don’t wait to be asked.
 Avoid comparing yourself with others. Focusing on differences tends to isolate people and deepen loneliness.
 Allow for mistakes in forming relationships. The people you are reaching out to make them too.
 Be patient. Relationships take time to grow.
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Brian
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Re: Coping With Loneliness
July 14, 2004 - 01:11 AM
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In this respect I'm lucky to be an introvert. My natural state is to be alone. This helped me greatly growing up in a military family. I can spend all day reading and not notice that there's noone around. I have trouble understanding how some people tell me they're bored or lonely. Now that I've got the Internet...man. I could go for a long time without human contact! But I am glad when others are around though.
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Serge
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Loneliness as a tool for self actualization.
September 28, 2004 - 06:33 AM
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Learning to deal with loneliness is a skill and to perfect it, involves practice, patients and positive creativity. Being able to cope with loneliness involves love for one self and appreciation of growth and change by taking every situation in life as a learning experience.
The only thing people can control %100 is them selves and by taking advantage of loneliness, demonstrates self control witch leads to self empowerment. When a individual is in control of his or her self then life begins to go their way which creates many sources of happiness. At this level of self-actualization being a lone becomes something to look forward to.
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Jennifer Rong
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Re: Coping With Loneliness
April 6, 2005 - 07:21 AM
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i can understand what braink is talking about. i'm pretty much the same. i don't mind being alone because at the end of the day, in reality, it's up to us to pursue our,hopes desire and dreams - nobody is going to do it for us and in this sense we are alone. people are companions who help to support you and it depends on whether or not you are a person who is used to being around a lot of people or used to being alone.
people who are surrounded by others tend to find it more difficult to move on than people who are used to going it solo. sometimes it's actually very nice to try something new on your own.it shows that you don't always need someone to do someting and also you can meet other people who share the same interests and hobbies.you can explore the world in your own free way and it adds to your unique experiences as a human.
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Tarez Aktad
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Re: Coping With Loneliness
April 9, 2005 - 12:50 PM
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me myself, im an extrovert, but i understand the introvert lifestyle. I think its more dangerous for an extrovert to be alone a LONG TIME, because they do not how to deal with loneliness. They may believe all other sorts of things, because they are in a different enviroment
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