Teenage loneliness and unhappiness

There is a saying: “To be lonely is not the same as being alone.”

You can be alone when you have chosen to be in your own company and feel good about, or you can have a feeling of loneliness.

The teenage phase is known for being a period in a young person’s life, where they are very social active, and want to spend most of their time with people on the same age as themselves.

It is a period in their life, where they don’t have the same needs to be with their parents as earlier. They want to try things out themselves, instead of being guided from the parents all the time. They need to develop independently. It is very important in these years, that you have some good and close friends to be with. Friends that accept you as you are, and don’t expect you always to be happy and in a good mood. If you don’t feel accepted, you can begin to be afraid to share your time and thoughts with them, and then you begin to be more isolated.

For teenagers the comparing of your own situation, with the life condition of friends, and other young people, can take up a lot of attention, resulting in periods of sadness, worrying and depression.