Feeling more isolated as you grow older.

Does any one feel more isolated as they grow older?

From a personal point of veiw I just can't seem to go where I want to go in life. I'm feel totaly isolated for numerous reasons, some in part that I just don't fit in with anyone no matter how much I try. Secondly because I struggle to conform, and that just makes people run a mile. Thirdly I was raised on a really deprived council estate (although I was lucky enough to have working parents and not in that boat), but my intellectual level is higher that the people I knew from childhood, but I don't seem to get a long with academics or wealthier people.

I feel completely adrift from the rest of world, and this feeling seems to grow stronger with age. I sometimes wonder about ending it all, but I don't really feel depressed or ar least I don't understand I feel depressed. 

In many ways I feel like I can't be bothered walking against the wind but spending the last year trying not to do such. I've shaved of my hair that was below my shoulder blades, I've shaved off my beard that had about 11" of growth, I've lost three stone. I've stopped enjoying recreational alcohol consumption. I've started teeth grinding and have consistend mouth sensations as a result. I feel persicuted from all angles of political thought, I just see them all as variations of right wing extremists.

Sorry for blurb. Just needed a moan.

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  • A lot of the lonely feeling I used to have was because I felt there was "something wrong with me" because I didn't have "dating relationships" but gradually, with the help of a therapist, I have got rid of that view. It took a while because you have it pushed in your face everywhere.  I also used to want my friends to fully understand me but it is suffiecient that they accept me as I am.  I have a few close friends that don't live that close and I only see about once a month at best but I am happy on my own the rest of the time. I don't watch television - another source of social pressure to conform to a particular view of what being a person is. There are other people like you if that is any comfort.

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  • A lot of the lonely feeling I used to have was because I felt there was "something wrong with me" because I didn't have "dating relationships" but gradually, with the help of a therapist, I have got rid of that view. It took a while because you have it pushed in your face everywhere.  I also used to want my friends to fully understand me but it is suffiecient that they accept me as I am.  I have a few close friends that don't live that close and I only see about once a month at best but I am happy on my own the rest of the time. I don't watch television - another source of social pressure to conform to a particular view of what being a person is. There are other people like you if that is any comfort.

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