Have you been a hermit or a loner?
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For the first half of my illness I was quite social. I had lots of friends and often went house parties, clubbing, walks and things like that. It is wierd, because I have become a lot more isolated since I have stopped hearing voices, I am no sure if that is just because I am getting older or what.
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I’ve been a hermit probably since my best friend died. So about eight to nine years for me.
A lot of people in my town like me too. It’s not like I’m an outcast or anything. When I bump into people from high school on the rare occasion they’re happy to see me, and will tell me that so and so was asking about me.
I don’t know, I sort of enjoy a reclusive lifestyle.
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I have been a loner for about 5 years now. Before that I had friends for 2 years, then was a loner before that after I had to cut ties with my druggie friends.
I see people at work, but they just stress me out.
If I had it my way I would isolate completely and only see my parents.
I cannot stand socialising. I have been taken advantage of too much in the past and I cannot trust anyone
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I’m a social person but living with CPTSD has given me so much anxiety around people. When I’m walking in the streets, I just feel like everyone is an abuser. I just feel so anxious and scared.
I feel like people are going to harm me, like how my teachers beat me for no reason.
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Yeah,
For about 3 years now.
I dont mind it though,
I’ve learned to cope with it.
It gets really bad whenever I feel lonely though …
I’m a loner since I was a little girl. I don’t like to be alone, but most people don’t like me. Sometimes I think only my husband and my family like me.
I’ve never had a close friend…just my wife. So, I guess I have, but you know what I mean. I just dont trust people…got that paranoid schizophrenia thing going on…
I’m an extroverted introvert, if that makes any sense 
Before psychosis, I was doing the whole party scene, had tons of acquaintances and a few good friends-- but ultimately still preferred to keep to myself on the daily most times.
I’ve become a lot more introverted since psychosis hit, but still socialize with people at work.
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I felt lonely since kid… I was isolating even then, but the worst came when I became a teenager, while the sz got me instead… I am 37 yearsold now and I isolate since my twenties… I suffered so much on this, that my doc said, that I live in hell… I don’t want to spend my whole life between 4 walls, but now I know that a bit of loneliness is part of life too 
. Plus, maybe ill always hide in a way, who knows… But ill try to improve on this… But yeah, sometimes outside, I don’t even stand well on my feet cause too scared lol…
You are not alone, take care!
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Isolation has been a big part of my thought or personality disorder since long as I can remember. Or even when around people feeling like I can’t communicate anything or am out of touch with whats happening. I range from schizotypal to schizoid to normal sometimes when around people. Lost in my own mind much of the time.
All my life, actually
My friends from high school all turned into ■■■■, drug addicts, gangsters drug dealers, liars and screw ups — last I heard they are set on dragging me into their mess (absolutely NEVER happening) they don’t know where I live and last I heard they think I’m a junkie living under a bridge – low and behold I’m clean and bettering myself, making good decisions in life – I don’t miss them and hope they end up in prison for all the BS I dealt with while knowing them … Friends and girlfriends are usually nothing but trouble …
Anyway to answer your question I’m not a ‘hermit’ but rather loner with anti social tendencies is a more fitting term …
Even though I hated being alone in the late nineties I guess I qualify as a loner then…I finally got off risperdal and onto abilify (which I hate now) but the abilify was working enough that I did a lot of amazing things in travelling across the nation to be with who I love. I did that once in florida and then in Phoenix…married the second one. got divorced and here I am with my gf now…wouldn’t change a thing but I wish I hadn’t been so delusional when I was married.
My mom said I was a loner in high school. I thought she was wrong because I had two friends I hung out with almost every day the entire time and a couple of people who I was almost just as close to. I thought loners didn’t have friends. At 19, I was put in a group home where I made one friend almost from the beginning. After he moved out I was friendly with counselors and other tenants but I wouldn’t count any of them as friends even though I talked to them a lot.
But now my last friend was about two years ago. I have a friend at work but we don’t socialize outside of work. He’s asked me a million times to go out to coffee or even go camping but I always turn him down. Actually, as recently as last year I was becoming friends with the women next door but now we’re enemies.
compared to most with schizophrenia I am quite social but compared to the average person I am relatively reclusive, use to do more when a friend of mine stayed closer but moved a few months ago. My social interactions are almost all one on one and I dont often socialize with groups of people
I have been an isolated loner my whole life of 60 years.
For me it was somewhat of a slow fade, a little hard to pinpoint, but if I had to, I’d say I became isolated around 2004. So a pretty long time.
From 2016 until November/ December 2019 I was in hiding.