AlonelyCrumpet said:
I am off of work due to a disability and have all this time on my hands. I have no family , no friends so all I do is sit and watch tv and drink.........I am going crazy with loneliness and depression. What do people do in my situation? I look forward to sleep but dread having to awake a new day. Is anybody else in my situation? How do you deal?
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steve
Hi again Steve.
Glad to see your still posting
Well, I don't think I have any advice for you but I do understand your situation. This is manly why am posting in this tread just to say I am in the exact same situation.
It is hard when you live alone and do not work. The two together is much moor crippling mentally then any disability could be I would say.
Its a battle Ive been fighting all my adult life. some days better then others.
Most days am fine. Its when Ive gone 3 or 4 days with out engaging in one single conversation that I get down about things.
What I do to keep going is... Well the Internet is an amazing invention that I think I have in the past spent way to much time on. But for me its better then any pet that I might have. Its the best substitute for company that I can find.
I have a bike. An electric one as am not to good with the big hills that are around this way. That always feels great to get out on when its not raining and am feeling up for it. But for me being out on my bike makes me feel free and alive. It mostly always clears my head.
Sometimes I just jump around my living room with my MP3 player pretending to be a rock star lol. That's the best thing about living alone./ You get to do stuff like that HA
I do have some friends though. But most of them just wont to go to the pub all the time. I do enjoy a drink but not to that degree.
Sometimes I go out and drink with them just because I can not handle being in another night on my own. Not the right reasons to go out I know but the friends am thinking of don't care who is out with them just as long as they have someone to drink with. So I Guss we use one another in that way.
I go to a pub and play poker once a week. I don't always drink beer on them nights though. But I do enjoy my poker. Sometimes knowing that I have that to look forward to is the only thing that gets me fro another week.
I Guss the days do go into one another and be for you know it your 10 years down the line and not done anything. That's what gets me down. Am scared that I well wast my life in this way. I am mostly happy in each day though doing my own little thing and finding stuff to do. Even if that's only having a run out in the car to Mcdonalds.
Anyway hope to see you around here some moor