I’ve pretty much been alone for the past week. I don’t talk to anyone. Haven’t seen anyone. I think its starting to really effect me. I find it harder to use words naturally when I am around people since I’m not used to talking. At least i have my bunnies I guess. I wish they could talk. Ive been trying to focus my mind on video games and movies to take it off the isolation. It helps
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Isolation is okay but bad for the long run. Everyone needs their quiet time. It’s normal and healthy.
I usually just cry a lot. 🤷
if you have internet access visit this forum often. real people inputting here.
i find it helps.
judy
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I’ve mostly been physically alone for over 7 years. Before that, it was spotty socialization, at best. Really, since I graduated high school in 2002, I’ve been profoundly isolated.
It’s like getting used to living in the cold. It takes time…and some people never get used to it. There is a beautiful statement by Kahlil Gibran about isolation and silence:
You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts;
And when you can no longer dwell in the solitude of your heart you live in your lips, and sound is a diversion and a pastime.
And in much of your talking, thinking is half murdered.
For thought is a bird of space, that in a cage of words may indeed unfold its wings but cannot fly.There are those among you who seek the talkative through fear of being alone.
The silence of aloneness reveals to their eyes their naked selves and they would escape.
And there are those who talk, and without knowledge or forethought reveal a truth which they themselves do not understand.
And there are those who have the truth within them, but they tell it not in words.
In the bosom of such as these the spirit dwells in rhythmic silence.When you meet your friend on the roadside or in the market place, let the spirit in you move your lips and direct your tongue.
Let the voice within your voice speak to the ear of his ear;
For his soul will keep the truth of your heart as the taste of the wine is remembered
When the colour is forgotten and the vessel is no more.
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I don’t know. I am only isolated for short periods of time when my husband works and my kids are at school. Even that seems interminable. I don’t know how I would deal with longer periods. I guess it would be smart of me- of anyone in a situation where they only rely on one person like I do- to branch out socially and make connections with others. That way if my SO is ever gone, I have a support system in place. It’s just so hard to get out and meet others. I don’t know where to start.
Maybe NAMI or other support meetings? Church? Volunteer work?
Listen to music on headphones, it will relax you and interfere with racing thoughts.
Enjoy the peace and quiet! Sometimes it is chaotic for me for several days and then i get one day to just not be around anyone and i can focus better. Read a novel, write an autobiography, start a campaign on a video game, resist the urge, if present, to use cannabis or other substances, and post on this forum. And remember one thing.
You are never alone.
Good luck!
thank you for this!
i was physically alone for about 5 years not really sure
plus 10 years of spotty socialization as you called it
and i couldn’t read books
isolation damaged me
i became "the man without qualities"
at one point i realized i had no friends no hobbies no interests at all
i didn’t know who i am because i had no personality
i was nobody and nothing
like tabula rasa… without character good or bad
only then i started seeing psychiatrist and taking my meds
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When I isolate I just play videogames listen to music or just cuddle my body pillow and sleep. I also talk to the voices and my alters a lot when I’m alone.
I isolate my self a few times throughout the week with music, video games, and movies but definitely need to socialize sometimes or things get pretty bad for me.
Hobbies and this forum, but the only solution to total isolation is meditation and contemplation.
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I deal with it very well. I love being alone.
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