A bit of help...?

Well, it would be helpful to know more details about your personal life, but I could see why you would not want to reveal that on here.

I know the feeling that you are all talking about all too well. Night shift during the small hours incites what I call, "the nihilism". I can say that it is important to engage in the activities of your personal excellence (stuff that you find interesting). Once you become disengaged from those activities, nothing is interesting because you are not interested in anything, and that feeling of hollowness is right around the corner. Start simple.

Activities, I stress, because they are not so much dependent upon people. Jim Morrison has a line that reminds me somewhat of the situation you are in: "... Prefer a feast of friends to the Giant Family". I would rather have a feast of 10 intimate friends, to a one with a 100 strangers. In the personal domain, it sounds like there are intimate friends and personal activities lacking. When the many "acquaintances" are gone (social domain), then there is not much left; hence, the feeling is right there waiting.

There is not much difference between habits and addictions.

Without going to far into that statement, it is to point out that if you are used to doing something every day of your life, it will feel like `hollowness` when there comes a lack of that something. In the case of a person like the one you describe, variety and much activity in social life seems necessary. It actually is part of the person`s physical and psychological makeup, part of the endocrinal system. This person is both active and positive. When the activity is not permitted, negativety can enter and is usually felt as boredom or some other negative emotion. I suppose I could go on and on since it is a subject I particularily enjoy, but suffice to say that this has only been one answer of a number of other possibilities. It may also be that you have found a new desire which your present path is actually taking you away from its reaching. The negative emotion you are feeling is the higher self`s way of telling you that you are going in the wrong direction for its fulfillment.

Perhaps you've been away from friends or have no friends, if you do have friends perhaps they're not the most authentic. As though you would choose for ideal friends. Perhaps something happened that has previously embarrassed you. Perhaps you wish you have a significant other. Perhaps your diet has been a little off. perhaps someone who thought highly of you no longer does. This is clearly something socially related. People who have love in their lives often forget that they're hungry, not to mention any other basic need that they may require. I'd do the opposite of all things stated above. I'd get my confidence up, I'd eat better, I'd take more assertiveness with my requirements of my friends, or make new ones. I'd do my best to let go of the past and I'd get a new hobby or join some form of local club group.

you need some lovin' honey. find you a girlfriend to share life with. until you find one, go help an old neighbor do whatever they need your help in. that is very gratifying work. hope you find something to fill your hollow hole. best wishes.

You are glimpsing into the absurd pointless world and life we live in. Now it is up to you to try to make your own meaning.

i have felt the same way and for me it was from losing someone the year before maybe its similar for you. whether someone died or you lost a love it can give you that feeling . i had both in the same year.

you are depressed. see a shrink