When I talk to people I don’t feel connected like I used to. It feels like if been in solitary for several years and the friends I do have our conversations don’t appease how lonely I am
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I dissociate often. So in that sense yes I am disconnected
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It makes human interaction come through but doesn’t fill me with satisfied chemicals by that I mean it’s never enough and I’m always seeking more people but it feels like I’ve been alone thirteen years
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Hmmmmmm. I don’t know what to say.
I think being alone is difficult but being alone with this disease… A daytime nightmare
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I feel “cut off” at night so I try and keep “normal” hours.
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Yes I feel disconnected. As if I’d been through a huge trauma that left me in a perpetual state of shock. But I don’t remember such a thing. It came to be this way slowly and steadily.
Yes. My social skills are not good, but I’ve kind of gotten to where I like the solitary life.
Yeah, it’s difficult to try and gauge where people are at or read them because I don’t have a strong foothold in reality. Even when I can gauge them, I have lingering suspicions about them. So it’s like, when the universe throws me a bone, I don’t take it because I am suspicious. Like, there is this girl at work and she is cute and she smiles at me and she makes jokes and all that, but some part of me does the whole truman thing and even typing that makes me cringe but it’s true, man.
I would have had a girlfriend last year but I drove her away by ghosting her because I was so deep in psychosis. She was pretty ■■■■■■ up, too, but we could have helped each other out. Oh well. Next time the universe gifts me somebody, I’ll take it. Lesson learned. Long story short, I feel incredibly disconnected. I wish I could just let go and trust but it is difficult for me. I try but it should be something that is natural. Maybe I am a bad person, I don’t know.
I have improved since I started living with my dad and have daily social interactions.
Do you live alone? Are there opportunities to socialize more?
Yes but not anymore really. It’s a relief to have abated the dissociative feelings I experienced for 20 years that made life difficult socially.
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