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Past Reality Integration <\/h1><\/div><\/div>\n\n

Loneliness<\/h1><\/div><\/div>\n\n

A persistent feeling of loneliness can have a major impact on your quality of life. For example, it can lead to health problems and feelings of gloom and depression. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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Emotional and social loneliness<\/h2><\/div><\/div>\n\n

Emotional loneliness occurs when you lack a close, intimate bond with one or more people in your life. Usually, this concerns your life partner. So you feel alone despite having enough people around you. There is an emotional need. <\/p>\n

Social loneliness is about having less contact with other people than you would like, such as missing friends, acquaintances, or colleagues. The social network falls short; there is a social need. <\/p>\n

Loneliness is often accompanied by feelings of emptiness, boredom, gloom and sadness, anxiety, confinement, and isolation. It can also cause (unexplained) physical complaints, such as neck, back, and shoulder complaints. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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There really is a way out<\/h2><\/div><\/div>\n\n

However awful it is to feel lonely, the good news is that there really is a way out. The key lies in realizing that when you feel lonely and isolated, you are being held hostage by a certain part of your brain. <\/p>\n

Strong feelings of loneliness generally stem from that part of your brain. It contains painful experiences from your early years (which we all have) that you could not process at the time. Experiences from the period in which you could not do anything yourself, were at the mercy of others to fulfill your needs, and had no sense of time. <\/p>\n

All thoughts in which you recognize words like: everything, nothing, always, never, everyone, nobody, and have no influence yourself, come from that part of your brain. All feelings and thoughts that are very present when you feel lonely. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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