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On Loneliness..

"Maybe everybody in the whole damn world is scared of each other." 
— John Steinbeck (Of Mice and Men)

"Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine." 
— Honoré de Balzac

"The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved." 
— Mother Teresa

Welcome to AntiLoneliness! 
I guess you are here because you are going through some tough moments in your life right now.
I know it's hard, it's lonely, it's confusing; and yet I see a healthy part in you that wants to feel better, more confident, more connected. Be proud of yourself for reaching out! 

I am Vassia Sarantopoulou, the head psychologist of AntiLoneliness.
I am here to support you in dealing with your struggles, in getting unstuck, in knowing yourself better and building a healthy, strong and balanced relationship with others but also with yourself. 

Healthy, balanced relationships and meaningful connections are the antidote to loneliness, and that’s my strong mission. 

Through evidence-based therapeutic approaches and tools, I create together with you practical and yet insightful actionable steps, and I guide you in an organised, safe and structured way towards a life with more joy, compassion and fulfillment! 

My goal is to help you become your own therapist. 

I am an advocate of living a life without mental health stigma, with an abundance of kindness and with an undying openness to self-awareness and self-growth, and that’s what I promote through my team and our services and online courses.

Meet me | Meet my team 

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Your thoughts

On anger...
​"I feel that my anger has a race with me. We run to see who is going to the the finish line first."

On loneliness...
"Being orphaned since I was 17, life just becomes more & more difficult. I'm surrounded by people with families, people who belong somewhere to someone. No matter how many friends I try to make, nothing can fill the hole where love should be. I feel like I'm falling & there's no-one noticing."

On breakup...
"I am trying hard to feel like myself again after my break-up. I was the one who left the relationship feeling unloved by my partner. Nothing feels the same. He moved on with another woman just 20 days after I left, he says he's so in love and happy with her. He just looked into my eyes and said to me "I don't love you" "

On breakup...
​"I'm seeing my ex back and currently we are almost like a couple again. There are no issues but still we are not like a couple, hanging like in between and its actually tormenting me inside. I have tried to ask him but his answer was: I don't know.... Really hard not to have negative thoughts...."

On trust...
​"I don't trust anybody any more."

On divorce...
​"Yesterday I picked up my kids from their mother (and my ex-wife). Until recently we seemed to agree on how to handle the divorce and the kids. But the fights between us have become overwhelming lately, and the kids are surely getting the vibes of all this. 
After reading your post about how the children feel when their parents get a divorce, and what they would like to say to us, I felt so ashamed of my (our) "adult" behavior. 
I know that so far I have been thinking only about me, me, me." 

On panic attacks...
​"My problem was panic attacks. 
Combined with stress, depression and anger. I am on medication since 2003, but it's a fact, this was not helping a lot anymore. I wanted to get rid of it. For good. "

On fighting the monster within...
​"I got tired of fighting the beast inside me. Years go by and I am struggling with the same thing every-single-day."

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