How can I be sure I am lonely?

I feel like I would give anything just to talk to some person and to be listened to and loved and accepted. I feel like an empty jar that needs to be filled.

You need to first find out if you're lonely because you have a lack of friends, or if loneliness makes you feel less motivated to do things which is why you feel empty.

You would have to know within yourself that feeling of longing for someoneor something. This leads to later depression.

To me, loneliness is a feeling that is always very real. Ask yourself, "do I have anyone to socialize with?" If you don't, go out and find someone!

Nobody is ever really lonely, a simple smile can fade away loneliness. The key is to be able to enjoy one's own company.

Being lonely is a state of mind. You can be surrounded by 100 people and yet feel lonely. I am not sure if there is any way to say that you will be lonely because people who care about you will try and reach out and get you out of it, for simple reasons that they would not like to see you alone. they would want you to enjoy life. I guess the challenge for you would be then defining boundaries. When is your me time and when is the time when you need to give attention to them.

Loneliness isn't always being physically alone. You can be surrounded by a room of people and feel that you are the only one there. You feel that you are unable to talk to anyone, no one is willing to listen to you and you are on your own.

This would be the feeling that you get and it would push you to talk with other people.

You can be sure you are truly lonely when you feel lost, when it feels like you have no one else there for you, but in reality, while you may be feeling lonely, you aren't, there are plenty of listeners who are willing to give an ear and help you through your loneliness and help guide you to finding a place when you aren't. I know how it feels to be lonely, you feel like exsisting is too much work and you have no one to turn to, but there is someone to turn to, listeners are here to listen, please talk to us, we want to help

when you prefer to keep everything to yourself and unable to share anything with others. In other cases, you talk to be people but you don't share how you really feel.