Dealing with the isolation of unemployment after 8 years as an IT help-desk technician

I miss my old team and the routine that came with being an IT help-desk technician. It has been a long 17 weeks. I do not want to pretend I am fine. How do you ask friends for support?

Thanks for writing this out. I went through something close to it 8 months ago, and it settled down once I kept a simple log of every call and form.