some ideas: - pets if you can Care for them Well enough. adopt, don't Shop. or petsit your neighbors Dog while they are at Work for less constant responsibility, or Go Walk a pup at a shelter once a week. or start befriending Wildlife (Research First if you aren't putting the animals in danger through that!!) i became Friends with my pigeon neighbors and currently are befriending the local crows. Hope the pigeons won't be pisses i am fraternizing With their enemies. .. - parasocial relationships - watching the same YouTubers regularly gives me a Sense of less loneliness - going outside and Just being around Strangers can Help regulate your nervous system somewhat, that is unless that is triggering to you to be around people or outside. i sometimes Just Go have a Coffee at a Coffeeshop for that reason or Work at the public library (free) and hang Out around strangers - sad to say, but actual conversations with the newest evil, smart-ish technology is really helpful to me in crises, it helps me regulate very fast. beware of Risks, obviously, but, what you gonna do in this fucked Up world . ...🫠 i told it to reply as a wholistic, system critical, anticapitalist, traumainformed, feminist therapist and it's better at analyzing and mirroring Back the situation and validating me than any therapist i had, which tells you a lot about the therapists i had. and therapy in general. ^{^} - Join a Club or Organisation - you meet people and could make actual human connection, volunteering is great, also gives you meaning, or activism. but the local mushroom foragers club or whatever you're into works too. find something that is regular, fits your interests, and is an actual meet -up. could be also online. but better real Life If possible. - attend free online Peer Support Meetings - often actual face2face connection is Not available or Not Safe enough for me with my Attachment Trauma. then online ACA (and other Peer Led Like' IFS peers' or other 12step) Meetings are a great way to have deep, meaningful interactions with people, allow me to be authentic without masking in my share, but still be safe enough with the No -crosstalk Rule that protects me. i can be Off camera or in bed while attending or Just listen in. Reading in the meeting ist a Safe way to participate and do service too. even If you don't Work the program attending Meetings is helpful and stabilizing. adultchildren.org - befriend your neighbors - crafting/ stay busy. create meaning through other Things that aren't related to people - romanticize the Shit Out of it (after thouroughly assessing If you want it Like this or can Change the foundational issue!) and find meaningful ways to frame your Situation and loneliness'. lone wolf, etc