6 Steps to Embracing Your Loneliness
Is Embracing Your Loneliness Impossible? Let’s explore six steps to recover your lost time and avoid those lonely moments.
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Social anxiety is a constant presence in people who suffer from it. It’s common to have difficulty making friends and enduring extended periods of loneliness. But it’s never too late to embrace that loneliness, which can be as helpful as isolating.
6 Steps to Embracing Loneliness When You Have Social Anxiety
1. Identify your loneliness
Identify what your loneliness is made of: Is it shame? Is it embarrassment? Is it fear? These are symptoms of being socially anxious, but they’re merely clues and signs that something needs to be done about these feelings. If the loneliness is not related to shame, guilt, or embarrassment, it’s still worth investigating.
2. Address the issue of isolation.
Do you feel like you don’t have anyone who understands you? Are you feeling lonely because there’s no one around to understand what you’re going through? Being lonely can be debilitating because it can gets way more intense than sadness or pain, and often, people are afraid even to admit that they’re alone and scared. Because of this fear and shame, they hide their emotions to avoid being judged. As a result, they are left with many unanswered questions and begin to feel so isolated that they don’t know how to cope with the problems.
3. Learn to be vulnerable.
Being vulnerable is an essential part of overcoming loneliness. You can’t overcome something you can’t face, and you can’t accept and acknowledge something you don’t accept and acknowledge. However, being vulnerable is often accompanied by feelings of embarrassment or self-consciousness. Sometimes, people think that being vulnerable means being weak, but that’s the opposite of what it is. Being vulnerable means that you are strong enough to take the risk to share yourself with others and show them who you are.
