Celebrating the lei with Meleana Estes

Meleana Estes, author of “Lei Aloha,” shared to “GMA” viewers the culture significance and the family tradition of creating the lei.
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Feeling as though no one cares about you is isolating and painful, even when we aren’t isolated.
We all need to feel like we matter, though it’s important to recognize that a person’s perception of whether or not they matter doesn’t necessarily reflect reality.
People often struggle with this belief for a variety of reasons, and understanding these reasons can be the first step toward addressing the issue.
You may be able to find support and perspective from trusted friends, family members, or professionals who can help you navigate these emotions. The reasons for these feelings are often more complicated than feeling lonely or isolated. Feeling as though no one cares about you is isolating and painful, even when we aren’t isolated.
We all need to feel like we matter, though it’s important to recognize that a person’s perception of whether or not they matter doesn’t necessarily reflect reality.
People often struggle with this belief for a variety of reasons, and understanding these reasons can be the first step toward addressing the issue.
You may be able to find support and perspective from trusted friends, family members, or professionals who can help you navigate these emotions. The reasons for these feelings are often more complicated than feeling lonely or isolated.You aren’t alone if you feel like no one cares about you. There are many people out there going through similar things, as well as professionals who can support you by providing tools and advice to better your situation.
Opening up and communicating your feelings to a trusted friend, family member, or therapist can be the first step toward the care and understanding you need to confront this issue.
Still, there are other steps you can take to build healthier relationships. Reach out to people with honesty and sincerity. Explain your feelings, why you self-isolated, and your desire to reconnect. A sincere message or face-to-face conversation can go a long way toward mending the distance between you.
9 Things To Do When No One Cares About You
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BY JACK NOLLAN - LAST UPDATED ON 30TH NOVEMBER 2023
sad lonely woman who thinks nobody cares about her
Feeling as though no one cares about you is isolating and painful, even when we aren’t isolated.
We all need to feel like we matter, though it’s important to recognize that a person’s perception of whether or not they matter doesn’t necessarily reflect reality.
People often struggle with this belief for a variety of reasons, and understanding these reasons can be the first step toward addressing the issue.
You may be able to find support and perspective from trusted friends, family members, or professionals who can help you navigate these emotions. The reasons for these feelings are often more complicated than feeling lonely or isolated.
But to better understand the problem, we should explore the reasons why no one seems to care about you.
Speak to an accredited and experienced therapist to help you deal with the feeling that no one cares. You may want to try speaking to one via BetterHelp.com for quality care at its most convenient.
Why does no one seem to care about me?
For many people, the belief that one cares about them is often rooted in poor self-esteem and self-worth.
They tend to believe that, “People don’t care about me because I’m a bad person. Not even my family seems to care about me. There must be something wrong with me.”
As you will see, it’s rarely that simple, and sometimes not even true.
Here are several reasons why you may think that no one cares about you.
Rejection sensitivity may cause overreaction.
Rejection sensitivity is a psychological concept that refers to an individual’s heightened sensitivity to rejection or criticism from other people.
People with high rejection sensitivity are more vigilant and reactive to signs of rejection, even in situations where rejection isn’t likely.
This heightened sensitivity leads to emotional distress, anxiety, and damaged relationships.
Certain characteristics may point to rejection sensitivity, characteristics such as:
- Emotional reactivity: You may experience intense feelings of anxiety, anger, or sadness in response to to perceived rejection or criticism.
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- Low self-esteem: Low self-esteem and self-image cause rejection sensitivity to reinforce itself. You may find that a perceived rejection causes you to think less of yourself or confirm beliefs that you aren’t good which further convinces you that future rejections are because you’re not good.
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- Avoidance behaviors: You may avoid social situations or withdraw from social interaction to reduce the chances of rejection or criticism.
- Overanalyzing social interactions: People with rejection sensitivity often overanalyze social situations to find signs of disapproval or rejection. This behavior may become self-fulfilling as you interpret benign events as confirmation, even though they’re not.
- Relationship difficulties: These individuals may have a difficult time forming healthy relationships due to their fear of criticism, rejection, and emotional reactivity.
Busyness makes it hard to forge deep connections.
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Busyness may contribute to the feeling that no one cares, though it’s not always easy to see the connection between the two.
People are often overwhelmed with their busy lives, giving them less time to focus and maintain their relationships. They may not have enough time or energy to expend the emotional resources that are required for relationships.
Communication tends to suffer when people get busy. They have so much on their mind that they don’t think about what they need to say, or they just forget. It’s difficult to juggle all of one’s responsibilities without forgetting some things along the way.
You may interpret other people’s busyness as a sign that no one cares about you, but really, they may just be busy or tired.
Trust issues may cause you to hold people at a distance.
Trust is the foundation of healthy, close relationships.
People with trust issues often self-sabotage their relationships without realizing it, though sometimes they do realize it and can’t stop themselves from doing it.
They may look for any reason that the other person is trying to betray their trust.
There’s a saying that we “often find what we’re looking for.” Meaning, we are predisposing ourselves to a certain perception.
Therefore, if you go looking for reasons that no one seems to care about you, your brain is going to be predisposed to finding and confirming those patterns, whether they exist or not.
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But those reasons may not actually exist. Instead, they may be cognitive distortions that cause you to perceive the world through a distorted lens. Emotions aren’t facts.
The person with trust issues likely has good reason to hide and hold people at arm’s length. These people may have been traumatized or treated poorly by other people in their past. They then develop unhealthy coping mechanisms that keep them from getting close to other people so they don’t get hurt again.
By not allowing themselves to be vulnerable, they create a cycle where they feel like no one cares. They hold potential friends at a distance which makes it harder for them to connect, which makes them feel like no one cares, and the cycle repeats.
Emotional barriers like trust issues and trauma may prevent connection on anything but a superficial level. At a superficial level, people are not as likely to be concerned about you as you’d like, making you feel as though no one cares about you.
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Grief may prevent you from connecting with other people.
Life is tragic. Everything ends sooner or later. Jobs, life circumstances, the highs, the lows, and relationships all end. It is inevitable. Of course, that is a hurtful thing to think about and experience.
People who have experienced severe loss in their lives may hold others at a distance so as to avoid that severe hurt again. It’s hard to want to be close to someone else when you’ve seen what happens when you lose someone