Lesson 17: Loneliness - Slide  14

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Lonely People Do Things Which Perpetuate Their Loneliness:

  • Depend on friends to build their self esteem and to initiate activities
  • Blame self and other people for poor social relationships
  • Falsely assume that nobody likes them
  • Expect everyone to include them in their activities and conversations and when this doesn’t happen they become more withdrawn, angry and isolated from other activities

Notes:

http://ub-counseling.buffalo.edu/loneliness.shtml

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