Dear Stuart:

You are welcome.  I hope other members will reply to your last post as well. As a matter of fact, you can start a thread with a title such as: “How to be happy alone?” so to get others’ attention to the input you are looking for.

If your question is how to be happy alone all the time- I don’t think it is possible because we are social animals. We are born to need other people. I need a balance of alone-time and time with others. I think everyone does.

I am sure you tried all kind of ways to feel good when you are alone. Some of these ways worked for you at any one time. You can make  list of those ways, figure if there are significant negative consequences to those ways, and if not, use this list as a guidance list for when you feel sad and alone. Looking at the list you can choose one way and try it. If it doesn’t work, you can choose another.

anita