The people
expressed feelings of loneliness, stigma, fear of social rejection, uncertainty for their health and they had problems in their relationships with family members and friends.
A Gallup study of student leaders in the nationally recognized Hugh O'Brian Youth Leadership seminar found them three times more likely than other teens to
express feelings of loneliness.
Not exact matches
The longing to belong in some ultimate sense, to
feel an at - homeness in the universe is satisfied for many in worship which reawakens the awareness
of «the mystical unity which underlies all human life» (Cyril Richardson) This experience is energizing, feeding, and healing; it overcomes the sense
of cosmic
loneliness, the
feeling expressed by a mental hospital patient: «I'm an orphan in the universe.»
All
of his young Negro subjects
expressed intense
feelings of loneliness and vulnerability.
These include: lack
of confidence; difficulties in sustaining relationships; bereavement & other losses; physical illness; difficulty in
expressing feelings;
loneliness; issues relating to abuse or unhappiness in childhood, stress at work or spousal abuse.
In EFT therapy, we would look at the patterns
of Anne and Chris in their behaviors, how attachment is being disrupted between them, how
feelings of fear, sadness,
loneliness and anger
expressed by each partner, and look at alternative approaches for them to talk to each other.