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There are plenty of good advice what to do. On the other hand don't do:

* Doomscroll on your phone, reddit, whatever. Social media is not your friend.

* Self medicate. Some commercial drugs are bad enough. This includes overeating.

* Get stuck binge watching.

Try things (if you can). You never know what you happen to like.

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This reminded me of the CPC Grey video "7 Ways to Maximize Misery" https://youtu.be/LO1mTELoj6o?si=7tWgqLPyug0-NC6Z (which is not specifically about loneliness).

That video did not really include self-medicating (except as screen time can be self-medicating for boredom and tiredness); I tend to self-medicate anxiety by simple logic games (picmi, sudoku, kmines — all but the last also avoid failure) which wastes a lot of time. (Drinking water seems to be a somewhat less harmful form of self-medication; it has similar sensory benefits to eating — not as attractive as sweet, salty, fatty foods but it seems somewhat similar — and distraction but overdrinking water seems more difficult.)

Written from my allroom.


FWIW, if you do do one of these things, make sure you don’t feel guilty for it.



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