The Core-Therapy: Loneliness
The app for treating the causes of loneliness.
Treating causes instead of symptoms!
Do you feel restricted or burdened by loneliness?
Then this test is made for you!
What is loneliness exactly?
Lonely is the one who is unhappy alone. Because there are also people who are happily alone. This means that it is an internal problem, not an external one. There are unprocessed emotions that should be treated, as these are stressful and also pathological.
In our core therapy for the treatment of loneliness, we offer you the opportunity to resolve the causes in order to get to the root of the problem.
The special thing about it is that the course does not involve confronting fears. There is also no journey into the past, we always stay in the here and now!
A psychological test designed to identify the inner causes of loneliness – and at the same time an anonymous research study exploring these causes.
What this is about
Loneliness is not an objective state of being alone, but a subjective experience. People can feel profoundly lonely in the company of others – and feel deeply connected to themselves while alone. Psychological and depth-psychological research shows that persistent loneliness almost always traces back to specific, often unconscious inner conflicts: repressed fears and feelings rooted in early relational experiences that continue to shape how we experience the present.
This app identifies precisely those causes.
What the app does
The app guides you through a structured psychological self-assessment that examines which of the following depth-psychologically relevant fears and feelings are active in you and contribute to your experience of loneliness:
- Fear of being alone – the inability to emotionally tolerate solitude
- Feeling of being alone – the inner experience of disconnection, even in the presence of others
- Fear of closeness – an unconscious withdrawal from emotional intimacy
- Fear of dependency – the concern of losing oneself in others or becoming defenseless
- Fear of rejection – the anticipated refusal in concrete attempts to connect
- Fear of disapproval – the underlying concern of not being accepted as a person
- Fear of abandonment – the deeply rooted fear of loss, often originating in early childhood
- Fear of conflict – the avoidance of confrontation that prevents real closeness
This is not a superficial questionnaire. It uses targeted, introspective questions in the tradition of depth-psychological diagnostics. The result shows you concretely which of these inner conflicts are at work in you – and therefore where therapeutic or self-directed resolution can begin.
Anonymous Study
Alongside delivering your personal result, the app functions as an ongoing research study. With every completed test, only the anonymized result – i.e., which of the causes listed above were identified – is transmitted to a central database. No personal data is collected: no names, no email addresses, no device IDs, no demographic information.
The aggregated study results can be viewed within the app and provide, for the first time, an empirical overview of the actual distribution of the psychological causes of loneliness across a broad user population. By participating, you contribute to scientific knowledge in a field that has so far been investigated only sparsely and unsystematically.
What’s next?
Identifying the cause is the first step. After completing the test, the app directs you to the companion app „Resolving Fear”, where the identified fears can be processed and dissolved using the DFRD method (Direct Focused Release & Desensitization). The DFRD method has been developed over more than a decade and is grounded in the insights of depth psychology (Freud, Jung, Reich, Alice Miller) as well as REBT.
Who this is for
For everyone who does not want to merely cover up their loneliness, but to understand its inner causes. For people willing to look – and thereby take the first step toward change.
Privacy
Fully anonymous. No registration. No personal data collection. Only the aggregatable test result is transmitted for study purposes.
The Causes of Loneliness
If you are affected by unhappy solitude (loneliness), we would like to invite you to participate in this study.
What is loneliness?
Lonely is anyone who is unhappy alone. Because there are people who are happily alone and others who feel unhappy alone, despite being in a relationship (or having friends). This means the cause of loneliness lies within, NOT in external circumstances. It is therefore about the *inner experience of being alone*.
Psychological Causes
This study tests for several specific potential fears and feelings. The (anonymous) results are transmitted by the app to our database. Apart from the test results, no data is collected.
How do I get started?
Download the app (link in the window below) and start the test. It should be completed within a few minutes.
We are hoping for enough participants to obtain a representative result.
Thank you for your participation!
Field Study
Topic:
The psychological causes of loneliness.
Objective:
1. To determine the frequency of specific, depth-psychological causes of loneliness (unhappy solitude).
2. To identify the precise psychological causes of loneliness.
Hypothesis: The cause of loneliness is psychological, or rather has specific depth-psychological reasons.
Participants: Open to the public. Anyone who has been burdened by unhappy solitude over an extended period.
Data collection: Results only.
Medium: App for Android and Apple iOS devices.
App name: Core Test: Loneliness
Duration: Under five minutes
Study period: 15 May 2026 – 31 December 2028
Follow-up: No
Load the “Core-Test: Loneliness”-App.
Note: The app is only for people who suffer from loneliness, i.e., the unhappy experience of being alone.
Load for free at the Apple™ App-Store or Google™ Playstore.
For all questions …
… please do not hesitate to contact us. Whether it’s a question of understanding, product details or questions about treatment.
We like to help!
Loneliness informationen
Definition
Loneliness definition
Loneliness is, who is unlucky alone.
According to a survey conducted by the Hamburg market research institute, Splendid Research, in spring 2017, almost 10 million people in Germany feel lonely. According to the Red Cross, 9 million out of a total of 66 million Britons also feel loneliness. And this isn’t limited to older adults – more and more younger people are also affected. Loneliness can be an extremely stressful feeling. It can be as painful for many as a physical illness. Those who are lonely often feel empty, desperate, excluded, unloved and abandoned. When the feeling is permanent and becomes a burden, it also becomes dangerous.
Loneliness symptoms
In addition to psychological stress, loneliness has been proven to have a negative effect on physical areas such as sleep quality, blood pressure, risk of heart attack and other health factors.
In a four-year study involving 800 people, American researchers discovered that the risk of dementia is twice as high in lonely people. Recent studies show that loneliness is also a risk factor for obesity and smoking. In fact, a meta-analysis by researchers at Brigham Young University showed that loneliness is about as harmful as smoking or obesity in terms of all-cause mortality.
According to a study by the University of Chicago, one reason that loneliness is so harmful to health is that lonely people sleep poorly. They wake up more often at night and don’t get the restorative benefits of restful sleep. Another study showed that people who felt lonely when going to bed had elevated cortisol levels the next morning. This may also be one reason why loneliness raises blood pressure and increases the risk of cardiovascular disease.
Loneliness is considered to be the social equivalent of physical pain, hunger and thirst.
Britain wants to tackle the problem – and has created its own ministerial chair for it.
Loneliness – Causes
The necessity for social relationships and closeness is a basic human need, just like sleeping, drinking and eating. It is therefore not surprising that social rejection affects the same brain areas as pain. The feeling of loneliness also triggers actions in the affected person aimed at avoiding the unpleasant condition.
In an award-winning essay “An epidemic of loneliness”, British physician Ishani Kar-Purkayastha described such a case in the medical journal “The Lancet” (doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(10)62190-3). She tells the story of an old lady who, shortly before Christmas, does everything in her power not to be discharged from the clinic despite her excellent health, because she fears loneliness at home. Loneliness is currently associated, by many researchers, not only with an increased risk of suicide but also with personality disorders, psychoses and diminishing cognition.
Loneliness psychological causes
According to a meta-analysis in the journal “Personality and Social Psychology Review” about the most effective methods in the fight against loneliness, it turned out that the best method was not to improve the social abilities of those affected or to bring lonely people together through targeted measures; the most effective solution was working with psychologists.
The fact that loneliness is caused by mental factors is unsurprising. There are people who have a lot of contact with other people but still suffer from feelings of loneliness. On the other hand, some people have little contact with others (social isolation) and do not suffer from loneliness.
It has nothing to do with the actual contact with other people, but instead has internal, psychological causes. It is a feeling that arises from how you perceive yourself and your environment. This finding is not necessarily new, but it was scientifically proven for the first time by two researchers from the University of Chicago in a comprehensive study.
Our loneliness-therapy
Our therapy is treating the causes of loneliness.
We want to offer you a solution that is effective and works permanently. In order to achieve this, the deep psychological and cognitive causes must be thoroughly and systematically dissolved. Thus, the possibility arises to dissolve phenomena like “loneliness”.
First step
Before beginning our therapy, we determine whether there are any psychological causes within you at all. If there are no causes, nothing will be addressed.
What’s the therapy about?
Our course is not about working on, getting by or getting along with symptoms, but about resolving the true causes correctly and thoroughly. This is the only real, permanent and satisfactory solution. Otherwise, similar problems will recur in the future, only in other areas. This will continue to happen until you resolve the actual causes. If the causes are thoroughly resolved, the symptoms will also disappear.
Our systematic approach
Since not everyone is able to deal with inner-emotional dynamics or to recognise and break down the causes for different reasons (aside from the time it takes), we have already done the hard work for you and summarised this in our therapy. The course is broadly diversified and deals not only with the various typical fears and irrational beliefs, but also with the related topics, such as rejection or being abandoned. Only with our systematic approach is it possible to treat and dissolve such complex phenomena as feeling of being alone profoundly.
We address the deeper-level causes.
Our methods have the following advantages:
– They are simple and applicable to everyone, even for the first time.
– They can be done alone from the comfort of your home.
– You can choose your own speed.
– You stay in the here and now. The methods do not require a journey into the past, analysis or reappraisal of your personal history.
– They are fast. We have several methods with different speeds.
– They are efficient. If you are a little more experienced, you can also apply the methods in everyday life.
IF YOU DON’T SOLVE THE CAUSES, YOU WORK ON THE SYMPTOMS.
“The highest happiness of man is liberation from fear.”
Walther Rathenau, (1867 - 1922), Politician, writer, industrialist 1922
