what are some good ways to deal with loneliness when you go to boarding school and when you come home occasionally you dont have any friends to hang out with?
2006-10-20 19:07:33 · 25 answers · asked by yangkai90 2 in Family & Relationships ➔ Friends
Read a book.
Watch TV.
Call old friends on the phone.
Go out and make new friends.
2006-10-20 19:10:32 · answer #1 · answered by Daddy Big Dawg 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's important to understand that loneliness doesn't ever truly stop - it will go away for awhile, but will come back - hopefully not as frequently and not as strong. Sometimes you will feel lonely even with you're with other people, and sometimes you will be perfectly happy to be by myself. The important thing is to make the most of each moment. Appreciate the times when you feel close to others, knowing they will come and go. And when you are lonely, just let it be OK to be lonely! You don't have to run out and join a club the second you feel sad or scared because of loneliness. It's easy to make it worse though - watch out for despair, or telling yourself there's something wrong with you that you don't have more friends.
Occasional loneliness is just a part of being alive and human. Look at is as a task to master, rather than a state to avoid.
2006-10-20 19:21:23 · answer #2 · answered by sunnskye 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hi, Everyone needs some friends. Why dont you try finding a chat room with other people who are interested in piano playing or drawing. Im sure there a plenty out there. By doing that you can meet people online without having to face them in person. Once you feel comfortable with them who knows maybe you would feel ok about meeting them in person. Have you tried online games. Yahoo has alot of games where you can play and chat or just play games by yourself. Do you like scrabble or hearts. Do you play euchre? These are ways of passing time without being lonely. As for the introvert part, when you go out places even just at school just say a friendly hi to some people who may have the same interests as you and who knows a friendship may start. Your right you dont have to drink to have a good time. No one should have to find an effective way to deal with loneliness.
2016-05-22 07:03:00 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You may never stop feeling lonely at times.
Spend as much time as you can being busy doing the things that you have to do.
People don't have to be friends just to hang out with.
You must have a lot of studying to do. Surely you must have time to talk with class mates about school work.
Hey you don't need to fill the day up with other people. Start with a couple of minutes here & there. Find some thing to talk about.
Look around you may not be the only lonely one.
What ever you do take a moment or two extra at it.
Walking to class, eating, showering, studiyng.
Spend some time just watching the changes in the weather.
Summer to fall, fall to winter, winter to spring.
Watch for all the little changes that happen almost daily.
Mark my word the time will come in your life that you will long for the quiet time that you are having now.
2006-10-20 19:26:42 · answer #4 · answered by Floyd B 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
get a hobby, something that you are really passionate about. Do it when you are free and busy pp dun feel lonely.
Might not be useful hanging out with friends you haven't seen in ages. Sometimes, you ll just find you and them have drfited so far apart. Makes you feel even lonlier at times and even more depressed of that.
Think the best thing is to try to enjoy solitude and loneliness, then you don't have to depend on anyone else for company.
2006-10-20 19:14:36 · answer #5 · answered by rum t 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do your best to make some. Best cure for it is company. I understand you're gone most of the time, but just try and put yourself out there and be as social as you can in areas that you think you might find people your age. Might make an acquaintance or two while you're here this time that could be a friend or two when you come back next time.
2006-10-20 19:10:45 · answer #6 · answered by Olivia B 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you become a friend you will have friends...What I mean is invite a few neighbors, old pals and family to a get together at your place. Serve dinner or just coffee/sodas and home-made treats that you whip up. Have a movie/pizza party. If you reach out people will usually come. You make the first move! Tag you are it! Best wishes!
2006-10-20 19:15:05 · answer #7 · answered by GiGi 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Go to online chat rooms and try to make some online friends. Pretty soon hours will fly by because you'll be talking to all these interesting people online. Or make a myspace and meet some people off there in a public place. Or you could just get obsessed with Yahoo answers and spend hours on here like me!
2006-10-20 19:23:31 · answer #8 · answered by Major Max Confusion 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well this sounded like me somehow many years ago..hmm lets see-read a lot, dwell in a new hobby (i used to draw cartoons), go to the beach daily, exercise (try swimming or cycling), make effort to be good with ur parents and siblings, catch up wiht the latest movies u missed while at school, write crazy funny cards to your boarding school mates, get a part time job at a cool place, accompany your mom to the mall or dad to the golf range, find a new friend..ya know the list goes on theres nothing ya cant do!haha
2006-10-20 19:15:44 · answer #9 · answered by aishah 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, what I do is because I moved, I haven't made any friends yet, but I just find a hobby and do it. My hobby is studying from my mom's old textbooks from college (yet I'm a freshman) and I just learn from them. I also write what I did that day in a diary, and if I met anyone. Just talk to neighbors, or anyone at ur school. I did that and I found that special someone for me to talk to and hold hands with.
2006-10-20 19:11:25 · answer #10 · answered by brown eyed gurl 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋