Tips to prevent and overcome loneliness

Loneliness can be overcome. It does require a concious effort on your part to make a change. In the long run, making a change can make you happier, healtier and enable you to impact others around you in a positive way.

Here are some ways to prevent loneliness:

• Consider community service or another activity that you enjoy. These situations present great opportunities to meet people and cultivate new friendships and social interactions.
• Expect the best. Lonely people often expect rejection, so instead focus on positive thoughts and attitudes in your social relationships.
• Focus on developing quality relationships. Seek people who share similar attitudes, interests, and values with you.
• Recognize that loneliness is a sign that something needs to change.
• Understand the effects of loneliness on your life. There are physical and mental repercussions for loneliness.