Though there may well be a biological need to establish relationships and though the rewards of relationships are well established, may individuals like me find it difficult to achieve that goal. The result is loneliness—an unhappy emotional and cognitive state that results from desiring close relationships but being unable to attain them. An individual who doesn't want friends is not lonely, but someone who wants friends and doesn't have them is.
Lonely individuals like me feel left out and believe they have very little in common with those they meet. They are perceived as maladjusted by those who know them. The result is depression and anxiety accompanied by unhappiness and dissatisfaction associated with pessimism, self-blame and shyness.
Unless there is some form of intervention to alter self-defeating behaviors such as aggressiveness, shyness or teasing, interpersonal difficulties continue throughout childhood and adolescence and into adulthood—they don't simply go away with the passage of time.
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