I suffer from severe loneliness and the reasons, to my knowledge, are a portfolio of factors. Namely my strong ADHD which hugely hinders my ability to connect at all, depressions that derive from it, a screwed up career with sheer countless job changes, an extremely toxic father who bereft me of everything humanly positive, the feeling of being at the ass-end of the world (Switzerland, where connecting is a near- impossibility), and lastly the troubles all of us encounter when dating or trying to. And I don't want to drink dirty water only because I'm thirsty, therefore no more reconnecting with latently toxic men. I could go on whining.... --- when I happen to chat with a gift giver, my heart pounds like when I was young(er) and still believed and felt something.