National Loneliness Campaign: experiences with loneliness

In no more than 200 words, please tell us about your experience of loneliness.

Please try to include the following details:

• How do you first start feeling lonely? What were the circumstances that brought on the feeling?
• What did you find yourself doing that made it clear that you were lonely?
• When was it at its worst? Do you remember a specific incident?
• How do you try to combat the feeling of loneliness? What actions did you take?
• How successful were those actions?