I have been mentally ill for 25 years and I think I tend to social withdraw a little bit or I would do some work with challenge and would not always post here…
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Yes I tend to socially withdraw. It’s hard to talk the way I talk on here in public.
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Yes, I agree with you.
yes i socially withdraw because sometimes im hallucinating and i say things that aren’t right and get embarrassed later on
I don’t have any friends to socially withdraw from. I socialize a tiny bit at work, but virtually all of my job is solo work. Otherwise I am at home on the Internet or watching TV. I live at home with my parents and the only people I talk to on a regular basis are my immediate family.
I really only have one friend left that I talk to regularly. Like Headspark, most of my socializing is with my parents. Even from that one friend I tend to socially withdraw. I am always eager to get off the phone when she calls. I only communicate with her out of courtesy for the most part.
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I withdraw a lot
I think that with age we (all humans) tend do less social contacts. that is natural. but of cures that sz make it worse.
Same here. This site is where I interact with the world. I’ve gotten to where I like my solitary life.
When I’m having symptoms I find it very difficult to be around people. I’m not that fond of being out and about. I’m a homebody. I do enjoy spending a little time with my family.
we’re all alive at the same time.
and why not a hundred years ago?
I care about everyone I meet.
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Yes, I have a social life. I spoke to me best friend.
There I was on the way to the beer store…talking to myself.
Yep, he is a cool guy. LOL
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I try to do it online. I don’t think there are many people local that are worth bothering about.
I almost only have contact with my family. I’ve become very introvert.
F2F there’s my (s) daughter and granddaughters etc. I haven’t seen my brother and sister since I moved here in Sept 2021. I did see my father in Oct 2018. He’s 91 and lives in NC. My step mum is 10 years younger than him, but in worse physical health.
Last time I tried to socialise, through a group at the library, it was disastrous. I struggled to talk. When I did talk there was very little response-most times none at all. Yet the other members of the group were chatting with each other well enough. I then had the person leading the group, who I later found is a virulent anti-Semite, take the p*** out of me when I paid for the refreshments. He hadn’t done so with the person who’d paid the same amount before me.
I’ve always been quite asocial even since childhood. That’s my natural/default way of being. That’s been affected further by bullying and social rejection as a child and teenager, and social rejection as an adult when I’ve tried to be more social.
I’ve now given up trying to socialise F2F. Of course Covid 19 has made socialising very difficult anyway.
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Thank you guys for your replies. Here is the main forum for us to socialize with one another. We all withdraw to this forum and here is safe for us.
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When people found out I have a psychiatric disorder, they made my life hell. People are trying to frame me for some lunatics bullsh!t. I have to practically live like a spy to avoid them. They’re nuts and I really hate them.
I’ve been an extreme introvert since my sophomore year in high school. Sza just made it worse.
I social withdraw a lot. I have one old friend left, and we only talk via WhatsApp. He visited me once last year. But he is not a good friend. I need to even get rid of the only friend left. 'cause he tried to send me LSD which I neglected.
I’m around people but stay alone in my room all day until I need something to eat. I’m kinda looking forward to isolate. I feel save when I’m in my room. Then just I need to get through my symptoms.
I lost pretty much all of my social life after my second akathisia attack when they told my parents that it would happen again so…