How do you cope with prolonged loneliness and isolation ?

I can't even pretend to have experienced isolation like you have but there are a few things I do in my ';down time';. I have friends make Cd's of their favorite songs so that I can understand my friends more, I ask them to suggest movies and books as well. Of course I make jewelry, Photoshop images I shoot and play guitar...but I think you do all that already. Do you work out to martial arts videos? I know your art is benefiting from this and I think your use of the computer is the best answer ever.How do you cope with prolonged loneliness and isolation ?
I think it really depends on the person, as everyone deals with things differently.


I just try to reach out to someone when I feel lonely or sad. I tend to find that if I keep to myself, the feelings only get worse for me personally.


If there is no one that I can call or talk to anywhere, I will sometimes try using the computer to find an outlet, write in my journal, and do it as if I am speaking to a person, rather than just journaling, which sometimes helps.


I have also just dealt with the feelings without an outlet or any help, although I must say I don't recommend doing that.


It is very difficult to do this without allowing depression to set it's claws into you. Loneliness and isolation are two doorways to depression, and when you combine those two things WITH depression, you have a very bad situation, as it becomes a vicious constant cycle. You really don't want that.


So I basically do anything I can to keep that from happening, even if it is something as simple as just going to a gas station and grabbing a water or something, where there is the possibility for some kind of interaction with someone. Sometimes something as small as a 2 minute conversation about weather can make a pretty dramatic difference in how you feel.How do you cope with prolonged loneliness and isolation ?
Is it emotional or physical isolation? If it's emotional, that you feel alone and tired all the time and you can't seem to be able to reach out to people, that is often a symptom of depression. It might be a good idea to make an appointment with a doctor (just a regular family-doctor type, nothing special/expensive) to check that out first.
Well creating art is pretty good to fill the time. But I guess that can be boring too. How about making art about how boring your own company has become. Produce all this art prolifically, as in really churn it out. That should keep you occupied for a while. I should have asked this earlier but is this involuntary isolation likely to end?
I personally don't do a very good job of it all of the time!! Some days I do fine,but other days I don't cope at all!! Unlike you,I have a bad case of depression+I am bipolar!! On bad days I just try to find cherry people on here to talk to!! It works pretty well!! Then sometimes I read or work on a few of my hobbies!!Birdhouse making%26amp;stone cutting%26amp;polishing!! I generaly cut the stones into hearts or crosses!! I make some of them small,to make into jewlery for my Family to wear! Or I like to make some big for paperweights!!!
I didn't cope with it. I hid deeper in isolation, even though I had a family to take care of. I wish I'd had Y!A/360 back then - and my pets, which my ex-husband would not allow in the house, or in the yard... he had my dog put down while I was in having my first child, and chased my cat away (or maybe killed it, Idk.)





I would have coped with it had I known how, or just how to ask for help. I had to hit the bottom of the barrel first.
Well, I sometimes try and go out or invite people over. Sometimes All I want is to be by my self. Coping is easy, you either want to be alone or you don't, the trick is getting out of your shell. I know, it's hard but that is a barrier that you have to break through. Oh, Buy a dog, a dog is like having a live in comedian, and he will love you no matter what.
Lizzie,


I am leaving and will be on my own, I cannot cope with this little peyton place any longer, I have now been denied any health coverage and my doctor has dismissed me as her client,.....epilepsy, diabetes,..what have you,....I am gonna go walkabout until my current meds are gone after that I'll be away from health care at all, hitch hiking to Texas, 2415 miles away,......maybe I'll lose some wieght.


Prolonged lonliness?........Isolation?....it will perhaps be a good thing. MY siezures have not stopped and my doctor refuses to treat me further........screwed me,.....oh well at least I had a good life.
excercise...mostly running and calisthenics. If possible, long facebook sessions.





The important thing is that you keep active and do your best to connect to something else that's living, even if it's only on a superficial level.
Get up go for a walk, and look for someone to help. Go help someone at a homeless shelter, or a battered womens shelter, or at a school. Get out of the habit of isolating yourself and get out and help others.
Why are you so lonely and isolated? Is it by choice? If it is, get out more. (I need to do that too) Find good books. Cultivate your interests. Make yourself into an interesting and interested person. Help others. Give - it helps.
I watch a lot of movies and I read a lot and of course you know about my cookbooks so I have so many things I need to do with them. I seriously wish that I could just stay home where it is safe and cozy. Maybe talking on the phone too helps.
By talking to no one about it!!!
Read a book. Keep your mind active.
Work at your hobbies.
keep your mind active. Read, watch TV, come online and try to learn something new. Try not to dwell on the situation
pray