The best advice I can give to people who process everything internally (aka introverts) who're struggling with loneliness and isolation (even just of mind), is to discover your personality type. Your 'MBTI'. it's very accurate and can describe your behaviours, tendencies and way in which you interact with the world, to a T. This is through measuring your strengths and weaknesses, and determining the ways in which to process and interact with the world. Find out which introvert type you belong to, there are a few. From there you can find different forums where you can connect with people within the same type that are exactly like you. Who share the same concerns as you, and experience the same problems. And can relate to even things you thought you could never share with anyone. It was the best thing I've done for myself in the past year. Even if you're not necessarily physically alone often, but regardless just feel misunderstood by people, and like you simply don't sense that you mesh well with others generally, I guarantee there are answers there for you to discover. And while talking with a bunch of people exactly like you probably sounds like a total headache, it's not. It's actually therapeutic. And it'll give reasons for a lot of the things that you experience, where you previously may have had none. Doesn't even matter your age. It's something that can enlighten and help people at any stage.
It's the first time I've ever really found any meaningfulness to chatting with people online, other than just passing time (lol no offense, CP). And for those who feel alone, you'll definitely feel much less so after doing this for yourself, maybe not because you'll make a bunch of friends (well, you might), but because you'll realize just how many others are just as lost as you, and experience the same things (stuff you never realized), and you have a place to go to discuss everything going on in your head with people who actually get you.
I thought I'd put this out here because I see people going through similar difficulties to those that I was experiencing for some time, and have found a lot of help with by just doing a little research. And let's just say...I have a hunch.
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