Help with loneliness

Strain, crisis & safety

In short

What this page is about

What may help if you feel alone, have little contact, or feel lonely even around people.

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If you do just one thing

Choose a safe form of contact.

Loneliness can grow quietly

Sometimes contacts become fewer, energy is missing, shame joins in, and the first step feels heavier and heavier.

One small contact is enough

It does not have to be a big meeting. A message, a counseling conversation, TelefonSeelsorge, or a fixed appointment outside the home can be a start.

When loneliness is linked to crisis

If you do not feel safe or have suicidal thoughts, do not stay alone. Use urgent help and contact a real person.

Sources and notes

• TelefonSeelsorge: phone, chat, and mail support in Germany
• Gesundheitsinformation.de / IQWiG: mental health problems – where to get help
• gesund.bund.de: German national health portal

If you only wanted information

This guide may fit as a next step: I feel empty or alone

If you want to try first contact

Use the sentence helper or copy one short sentence. First contact does not have to be perfect.

If it has become urgent

Then reading more is not the priority. Open urgent help or call 112 in Germany if there is immediate danger.

One small step for now

Write just one sentence to a safe person: “I just wanted to ask how you are.” You do not have to explain loneliness yet.