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The original was posted on /r/cfs by /u/deep_cuts on 2025-08-11 06:49:53+00:00.

Just a quick rant. I guess I really didn’t know how lonely I was, and it hit me in that moment like a gut punch. I just happened to be opening the window of my room, where I spend 75% of my life, in the house where I spend 100% of my life, as a woman around my age was walking by. I’ve been isolated for years and I knew I was lonely, but I never felt it all at once like that. I guess she was just a tangible reminder that there’s an entire world out there full of people living normally, and I’m not part of it at all anymore but it’s still happening without me.

I am especially lonely romantically to be honest, having split up with my partner of many years just months before I became too ill to leave home at all. And I know there are ways to connect with people from home, but I genuinely feel too tired for them most of the time. Not that it was a romantic opportunity, but I finally made a new online friend on Twitter in the last few months, but I haven’t spoken to them in over a month because even sending text back and forth has felt too exhausting. So I don’t really see a solution to this at the moment, but I just felt like speaking about it to people who would probably get it. So if anyone reads this and commiserates, thank you. I will likely be too tired to reply to any comments, but I’ll try to read them.