I've been going through a really difficult period of loneliness within the last few weeks. There's been so many bereavements in the last few months that I think that's what has triggered some of these feelings.
I always try to keep the bright side out and like to think I'm a good friend, but since my teenage years (I'm now late 30s) I've just had really bad luck with friendships, I've done the usual things like volunteering and joining things but only ever seem to make friendships that are surface level where I've always been the one to do most of the work.
The friends and family I do have are more like acquaintances and never want to meet up or even talk on the phone. Recently at a funeral of another loved one, I saw the effort everyone made and it just made me wish that people could have done that when the loved one in question was alive. I've just been feeling worse and worse lately and feel like if I disappeared sometimes that nobody would even care or notice