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music, working out, video games, cooking, cleaning, organizing, having a pet all those help when your lonely

use - if you don’t have close people you can text/call in such moments - this community to communicate, share thoughts, get distraction. sometimes, listening to podcasts (e.g. biographies of famous people) can help. it lets you dive in into a new universe of human experiences, positive and negative.

Plan ahead. If you know you’ll be alone, plan something grim around people. I struggled HARD with them whenever I’d travel for work alone. I’d start watching porn from when I got in the uber type addiction. Eventually I chose to leave my hotel room and go for a walk around the city or hang at the lobby bar til it was late and then I’d take melotonin to go to bed. It was hard. But it got me through the few travel days.

You can use that loneliness. If you feel the urge just think about you and your goals. Think about if you would relapse you wouldn't reach that goals and if you would relapse you would never be the best version of yourself. It takes a little discipline but loneliness is not our enemy. In solitude you just have to turn your bad thoughts into good and motivating thoughts

this one is tough, I deal with it. the best I have found is meditation, prayer and mindfulness, realize that by yourself you are fine, it is from within our mind that we bring out things to the outside world. as such we have to be contempt within and realize we are good by ourselves then everything else falls into place when outside. it is hard, takes days and hours, silence. but we are all capable

hi, keep yourself busy throughout the day