Don’t be hard on me, pals, cause its a painful subject to me still, but yeah, I realize staying inside like this, only with the computer is not so good…
The life is to move, to breathe air, to talk to others, to discover things…
I am worried about my phiscal health after isolation of twenty years… But it feels like I am grieving now, that I got to this point 
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Did you also have many years inside? Did you manage to improve on this?
Hard to move when paranoid or somatic or depressed, but its healthier to move, yeap.
I still have my friends online, but idk if its for a good or for worse, lol… My brain also is a mess now…
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I did a lot of isolating and staying inside. Then I started attending a day program and I mostly sat apart from everybody and didn’t talk to anyone. But a few months ago I began to make myself start to learn people’s names and participate in discussions. It wasn’t easy and most of the time I was having an internal dialogue that dealt with wondering why these people were pretending to like me and if they had an agenda when talking to me. I hate myself so much most of the time that I found it hard to believe that other people could be genuinely interested in what I had to say.
Now, after all that effort, I’ve got the beginnings of true friends and on days when I can’t attend I feel really lonely. I sit at the “popular” (high functioning) table now and have begun letting go of some of the paranoia. It’s been hard work but I’m really glad I did it. Take the first step that you’re able to and definitely do go outside. You can do it!
Lots of people isolate themselves no? Well, ill work on it…
The sadness doesn’t help, but I fight… I cant go out today, but i’ll use this in order to clean my house… I’ll move like this.
For how much did you isolate like this, pals?
Are there some of you, who are not bothered of staying inside sometimes still?
It sucks a bit, that I turned so asocial, with all the symptoms which come with it… I was closed since kid, going more and more closed… Maybe the negatives, idk…
But sometimes I grieve now and just want to cry with all that I missed… Too many years of illness…
You gotta do it in little pieces and take babysteps. Get used to being out for x amount of time despite symptoms and then slowly increase that.
Try to teach yourself it’s okay to get scared and feel bad when you’re outside, and that it doesn’t mean you should go back inside.
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I go outside Nova, but always rush to go back at my house… I find myself depressed now… After realizing what I’ve missed in life… I just wanted to find people here, who knew the isolation for a long time too… Does it happen in sz or it was me, who ‘‘made’’ a mistake?
Never knew a person, who was between four walls for so many time…
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I too have been isolated much in life. I never had very good social skills. I’m not very confident with people even today at 46. I honestly havn’t done much with my life and it effects me greatly. I never been able to change the cycle much, but I have some online freinds these days. I still act like a spaz quite often and have many delusions going on. Those are the facts of the matter.
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I came back and wanted to reply. I enjoy riding my bicycle outside. In this weekend I have been riding a lot, close to 50 kilometres. If I stayed inside, I would have depressive thoughts and other symptoms. Exercising is good for people who are schizophrenics and who suffer from depression. I do not have any solution how to break the cycle of staying inside, I suppose you just need to go outside, maybe just to sit on a park bench. The key is to start enjoying outdoor activities. I do not have a car and so I use my bicycle also to do other activities necessary.
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I haven’t isolated for 20 years, but mine is getting progressively worse. I am going to ask my husband to take me out three days a week, even if it’s just to the store to walk around. It would force me to get up and get dressed and leave the house for a bit. I don’t remember the last time I was out by myself. I’d like to work up to that. I really wish you well. It can’t be easy to break isolation after so long.
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Yes, I have wasted so many years of my life staying inside. I don’t mind leaving the house and doing stuff it’s just the tedious getting ready part I hate!
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Ah it must be hard trying to break out of isolation. I isolated myself for 2 years but I was tired of seeing life pass me by so I pushed, I also have a good support network.
Do you like music? I’ve been listening to this song for like a year and it has really pretty lyrics. Have a listen 
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Just about to start working from home, won’t have to spend the majority of my day around people who annoy the p1ss outta me. Can’t wait.
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