It can be hard to determine if your child or teen is lonely. Defining what ‘lonely’ means is an important first step.
“There’s a difference between loneliness and being alone. You can be really content and happy in your aloneness, but you could be in Croke Park with 80,000 people and be lonely,” says Linda Breathnach, counsellor and psychotherapist accredited with the Irish Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy(www.iacp.ie/).
