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I have felt isolated many times, sometimes my thoughts can overwhelm me and it has led to isolating myself from others. I attempt to distract myself from delving to far into my own thoughts.

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In 6th grade we were forced to stay at home for the rest of the school year, and even after that we were not really able to go anywhere due to the virus. I was not able to talk to anyone and didn’t make many friends, which made it harder in 7th grade since I knew almost nobody. It was worse when my family got sick or I got sick because the meant I couldn’t even see the people I loved with as much.

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in the beginning of 8th grade my parents decided to move states. What I didn’t expect is that we would essentially go on a year long road trip around the US staying in Airbnbs to look for where we wanted to live. Although this experience was fun and I got to experience new places and travel it was also very lonely. My old friends eventually lost touch after the first few weeks, and i did online school. so the only people I was able to talk to for an entire year was my little sister and the realtors.

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Thinking about living alone and not having anyone is such a huge fear of mine.

Kind of happened my freshman year.

Can't give too much detail because it's sensitive, but I practically lost two of my favorite people while they stood right beside me.

It was the worst time of my life.

But it really helped me to grow, so I wouldn't change anything

I think the best way to get over isolation is to change.

Don't be afraid of change, and you can move on to a brighter future.

People are stuck in isolation and depression, and they don't know how to get out. Its hard, you feel like you're stuck. You feel alone. You aren't.

When you're in the worst times of your life, if you want to get better, you have to reach out.

Parents

Friends

Pets

Music

All of these things can have a better and more positive affect on you.

Reach out to parents, ask for more time with them, have movie nights, go out for dinner or ask to be taught how to make something.

Friends. Walk away from any that make you FEEL bad. The reality of a relationship is how the person makes you feel, not how you feel about them. Read that again pls 😐. Make new friends. Reach out to people you may have misunderstood or misjudged. They could be great people! Talk about how you feel with your good friends, they could help!

Pets! Hug your pets, if you don't have any, then make a goal of hugging your parents at least once every day.

Music! CHANGE IT.

Completely change your music style.

Music has a huge impact on brain function, and music from a depressing time can make you feel worse. Listen to happy music!! I recommend Good Kid, or some rock songs. Old music helped me the best when I was trying to get out of my isolation. It reset my music taste and now it's all upbeat bangers.

You can do it!

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When my friends once all went out together to go eat and have fun, I wasn’t allowed to go with because my mom wouldn’t let me go because of safety reasons. They were a friend group I would always go out with and get invited to places with so when it was my first time not going out with them I felt isolated especially after they posted it on their stories or something funny would happen during that time and I wouldn’t have known about it because I wasn’t there so there were new inside jokes that I wasn’t apart of and that made me feel even more isolated than I already was.

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I’ve been isolated before as a bookish nerd sort of kid which gave me a good vocabulary and helped me to get very high grades my whole life. These things led to me being seen as the ‘smart kid’ because most people tend to not see me for who I am rather than my grades and my ease of completing school. I have found that this increased my sense of isolation because it puts a distance between me and other people, because I can’t relate to them with not understanding topics, and I get scorned when trying to help. I get ridiculed when I score lower than a 95, too, which only serves to further the isolation, even when I have people I joke with and talk to, there is always a sense of a gap between myself and everyone else.

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In elementary school, I moved to a different school and had to make new friends. I felt alone in the new school because the friends I knew for my whole life weren’t with me anymore. Eventually I made new friends and wasn’t isolated anymore.

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I remember this one time that the person, who shall not be named, was trying to find their way into our friend group. But no one liked them and really didn’t want anything to do with them. So, we did what we thought would be best and isolate the person. It worked and they left us alone, but looking back on it we made them feel as though they weren’t good enough for us. The loneliness they felt could’ve caused depression or something worse all because we wouldn’t give them a chance. And I would experience this same feeling a few years later. The friend group that I considered my closes friends would go and hangout without me and wouldn’t say anything about them hanging after the fact. I would find out through other people and hear they had a grand old time without me. And hearing that they don’t need me there to have fun hurt my heart a bit.

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Four years ago, I was in sixth grade when everyone was forced into isolation. School still was in session, but online school. I hated doing online school because I cannot focus at my own home because I associate my home as a place to relax and chill. Additionally, the whole experience felt empty because other than my mom being there, I felt alone because I had no one to socialize with and I felt completely alone. I'm sure that my anxiety was fueled by COVID because before, my anxiety was not worse than now. Today, I feel like my whole identity has changed, but I accept myself for who I am and I accept my anxiety.

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In middle school there was kid on the football team that was different and not very good at football. We isolated him and never invited him anywhere. He was barely even talked to at practice so he must have felt very isolated. This is one of my biggest regrets in life.

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A moment I felt isolation was when I moved schools. At a new school I didn’t knew many people and just felt like a loner until I met some friends and didn’t feel isolated anymore.

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In 7th grade we were all attending online school so isolation was a common feeling among many but for me when I thought I’d be back with everyone I moved up here and started my 8th grade year. I don’t have the opportunity to talk to my old friends often and it’s kind of embarrassing to be the one physically isolated from the people I grew up with. Due to that I refused to make friends at Booth and further isolated myself and now struggle to make bonds

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At work on some nights, I feel isolated around people that don’t acknowledge me. Most of the people who work with me on this night are part of the “cool” friend group and only talk to the people in it. Since I am not part of that group, most of my coworkers don’t start conversations with me or involve me in their discussions. Being surrounded by a bunch of people who are friends with each other but not me makes me feel lonely and like I don’t belong or fit in.

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When I moved schools in 7th grade I was so lonely. I started school late because of covid. My best friend I started to drift I did not have any friends in school and I felt sad all the time.

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Usually when I’m going through things, I tend to isolate myself from other people just to process things. Even though it’s how I deal with stuff personally, I tend to notice that when I do, no one really bats an eye in my friend group. No one ever reaches out to me whether they know or don’t know what’s happening. Makes me feel lonely at home often and even at school in my “friend group”.

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During my first year of high school, I had few friends in my classes. I felt so alone and I often didn’t want to go to school. Things were especially sad during my lunch period when I sat alone and had no one to talk with. I’d often be avoided at the lunch table and I felt like I was not wanted and not loved. Social isolation can really hurt a person.

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After my dad left i had to start being there and taking care of my mom a lot because of her loneliness and struggle. it forced me to be isolated from my friends and left me lonely.

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During my freshman year, I decided to try out for the volleyball team. I have never touched a volleyball competitively in my life, but I loved playing around with my friends. My friend convinced me to try out so I did. I somehow made the team, and was so excited. When the games began, I saw how good everyone was and how much experience they had compared to me. I felt very alone, especially when I spent most of my time on the bench.

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When I moved countries, i felt very isolated. I had left behind my entire family and all of my friends across the globe. It was hard to get used to at first, but I had adapted and found ways to deal with the distance of my family. I did lose contact from my old friends but I keep contact with my family. Although this change has caused me to drift away from my family, I know they are always there.

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This past year when my papa died I isolated myself from everyone and did not talk to everyone. I spent my weekends either partying, where I sat in the corner and didn’t talk, or in my bedroom crying.

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Last year I was isolated by one of my best friends and I did not want to lean on someone else when I was feeling pain of being left in someone’s past. I felt very alone and like I lost one of the most important people in my life.

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When I first began playing soccer, I wasn’t good at all. Compared to my teammates, I was just not good. I felt isolated because while they played good and were on the field, I was not playing and separated from them.

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Isolation is a very common occurrence among everyone in many different ways. For example, people may feel isolated when they go to a party or gathering for a friend, but that friend’s friends are there as well and may often not know them, so they isolate themselves from their friend’s other friends. This is a very common thing to happen to people and isolation is often unavoidable for everyone at some point in their lives.

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A lot of times with friends I feel left out and it makes me feel like they don't like me. Because of that I over think things a lot more then I should and then I start to isolate myself from everyone. Usually I don't notice that I do it and think that I'm not the issue when a lot of times I am because I don't put myself out there.

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During covid i had no friends and it made me crazy. My grades were terrible and i had no one to relate to or talk to. Worst year of my life. Afterwards it felt like i had to start all over and make new friends and I struggled a lot.

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Ever since I’ve moved schools I have felt a sort of distance and loneliness. It’s been a struggle to feel comfortable amongst my peers. Whenever I wake up I dread going to school, not because I hate learning but because it can get lonely.

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I had felt isolated when my friends had dropped me, this not only happening once but twice. the second time wasn't as bad, but I just think u found solitude in the loneliness. but the first time the isolation was terrible. we all used to sit at a table, but then they deliberately moved tables to avoid me.

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me and my friends were together and it felt as if i was the left out friend because they wouldn’t talk to me or include me into activities which made me question my worth because i felt as if i wasn’t good enough for my friends

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I accidentally made my friend feel lonely when I sat next to my other friend at the lunch table instead of her. I didn’t mean to or know she felt that way, but when she told me about it a year later we laughed about it.

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The pandemic made it hard for people to go out and see each other or meet new people. I was enrolled in digital school all of seventh grade, and I definitely missed a lot of the memories that happened while my current friends were at school. This also made it so field trips were impossible and we ended up missing the last of them. It was lonely not being able to have many friends and not being able to travel. Although it did prevent more people from getting sick.

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I felt isolated during COVID since everyone had to switch to online school for a while. I didn’t see my friends and I was always in my house. This caused me to miss hanging out with my friends immensely.

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When i was at church camp, many held a superiority mindset. Certain groups believed they were "more christ-like" or "better than others", and being new to the church, i did not fit into any group in particular. In turn i was exiled and isolated from the group.

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The only thing worse than suffering a serious illness is suffering it alone. This can be related to hearing a friend talk about something they went through in the past and they didn’t have someone to talk to while it was going on. Hearing of their isolation and loneliness during a time they were struggle makes an individual more inclined to reach out and help others.