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Hello Fiddle and welcome from Australia.
This is a big forum with something for everyone.
There is always somebody awake because of the different time zones.
You can spend endless hours here and over time make some very good friends.
 

Hey Fiddle1973, I'm brand new here also. Glad you're here. Hope we figure out this new place. At least there are a lot of friendly folks here. Talk to you on the forums soon.
 
Hi Fiddle..sorry to hear about your recent circumstances, I can empathise with your back problems, having back probs of my own , but fortunately I don't have to spend too much time lying down.

You've come to the right place to help with your loneliness....

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Welcome aboard from rural Kentucky.

I'm relatively new myself. SF is proving to be an active and friendly forum.

Post and participate. You're sure to find folks with lots of threads of commonality to interact with.
 
Warrigal said:
Hello Fiddle and welcome from Australia.
This is a big forum with something for everyone.
There is always somebody awake because of the different time zones.
You can spend endless hours here and over time make some very good friends.
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Thanks Warrigal, that’s why I joined. I can tell from the responses that there is a lot of friendship here.
 
Fiddle1973 said:
Retirement is not what I expected, still I keep a daily gratitude list and see an online counselor to keep working on myself.
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First, welcome! Relatively new myself and enjoying SF.
Second. Gratitude lists/journals can be very helpful--i used the principle during my last divorce. And i applaud people for seeking professional help and being open about it. We need to destigmatize MH issues. Whether brief situational ones, or long running trauma responses.

Do check out the 'Good News Thread' and the 'What made you happy today' thread. Both can be uplifting. There are some very serious, what some label 'deep thinking' threads as well. But the beauty of it is--we each get to choose what we participate in and what we do not.
 
hollydolly said:
Hi Fiddle..sorry to hear about your recent circumstances, I can empathise with your back problems, having back probs of my own , but fortunately I don't have to spend too much time lying down.

You've come to the right place to help with your loneliness....

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Thanks and good to meet you :)
 
feywon said:
First, welcome! Relatively new myself and enjoying SF.
Second. Gratitude lists/journals can be very helpful--i used the principle during my last divorce. And i applaud people for seeking professional help and being open about it. We need to destigmatize MH issues. Whether brief situational ones, or long running trauma responses.

Do check out the 'Good News Thread' and the 'What made you happy today' thread. Both can be uplifting. There are some very serious, what some label 'deep thinking' threads as well. But the beauty of it is--we each get to choose what we participate in and what we do not.
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Thank you. I didn’t know about those particular threads-I’ll look them up
 
Fiddle1973 said:
I can tell already, reading one of the threads on living alone, that there will be others here who get me.

I’ve been looking online to connect with other seniors, I’ve been really lonely since my Dad went into memory care/assisted living in March. I visit him during the week but have some severe back problems that limit me. I’m working with specialists on that, but most days I’m home, alone and laying down.

Retirement is not what I expected, still I keep a daily gratitude list and see an online counselor to keep working on myself.

I think the hardest thing I’m facing now is loneliness, family has moved away or passed, so I hoping to meet others and make friends here. Thank you for listening!

Fiddle
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Fiddle1973 said:
Hi Jules! This has to be one of the friendliest forums. Glad I found you all
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old guy here been alone for 35 years...gratitude is indeed the key--and becuase of covid ...absolutly alone....I seem to think I am a pretty good guy unlike the morons on t.v. hahhha
 
Fiddle1973 said:
I can tell already, reading one of the threads on living alone, that there will be others here who get me.

I’ve been looking online to connect with other seniors, I’ve been really lonely since my Dad went into memory care/assisted living in March. I visit him during the week but have some severe back problems that limit me. I’m working with specialists on that, but most days I’m home, alone and laying down.

Retirement is not what I expected, still I keep a daily gratitude list and see an online counselor to keep working on myself.

I think the hardest thing I’m facing now is loneliness, family has moved away or passed, so I hoping to meet others and make friends here. Thank you for listening!

Fiddle
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Fiddle, you are going to blend right in. You will love it, I promise. This wonderful gang of people won't pity you, we all have a cross to bear, and it's that personal pain that most of us have had at one or more times in our lives that strikes an empathy with your own pain.

You have taken the first steps to leaving your loneliness, the folks here are always welcoming, more so when they know that instead of self pity, someone makes the effort to engage with others. Remember, friends are only strangers who are yet to meet.

Welcome from England's New Forest:
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boliverchadsworth said:
old guy here been alone for 35 years...gratitude is indeed the key--and becuase of covid ...absolutly alone....I seem to think I am a pretty good guy unlike the morons on t.v. hahhha
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That’s good, made smile….
 

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