To avoid loneliness, plan to be with friends or other people that may become friends. Volunteer in your community to help those less fortunate than you during the holiday season. Get a group together to sing at a local children's hospital or some other group activity. This will allow you to be involved with people and avoid feeling lonely. Use your usual stress management techniques.
Deep relaxation exercises several times during the day.
Expose yourself to humor and laugh. Do all this and you can remove the question mark from the headline and replace it with an explanation mark.