do you feel social isolated?
i know i do, no mather if i try, i feel odd, the soroundings feel that too and react acording.
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I would describe myself more as socially awkward than isolated. I seem to be getting over it though.
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I’m isolated for the most part. I get isolation crazy a lot. Sometimes lose my mind worse than sz does. I think I often have scizotypal and/or schizoid personality disorder and I’ve lived alone a long time.
I like being isolated. My fight / flight response has been kicking in too much lately when im outside - almost thinking im gonna get attacked.
I seriously cant get on with other people at the moment. My familys always on the end of the phone if i need company.
At the moment I wouldnt care if i never left the flat again.
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I dunno wat kind(idk medical terms if it’s ptsd or something else) but I think I have some form of lingering trauma from psychosis times which makes me feel mentally isolated. Around people, in particular neurotypicals.
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Yeah, I chat online a decent amount, but I still feel mentally isolated. I actually do have a lot of friends online.
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Yeah @ola I’m isolated. Always have been because I came from a family that was so different & no-one could relate to, so much trauma to conceal. I grew up learning to mask it so I’d fit in. So I’m very good at masking. I was so good at masking my schizophrenia & meeting everyone else’s emotional needs that none of my therapists or GP picked up on the fact that I had a psychotic illness. For years.
Now I work 2 jobs & have a social life, the whole time I’m working or in company I mask who I am to fit in so it’s pretty isolating. I joined the forum so I could makes some friends who I can be honest with.
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Quitting lithium and starting zoloft has been a great change. I’m much more stable and much less isolated.
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YES. I absolutely isolate myself because of this mental illness and it is a struggle for me each and every day.
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wow, thats quite a story,i meaan its your ife bot you have also grate expration in a ords,
what kind of work do you do, is it someting creative ? i aslmost sure that you as re creative person.
so bad 
sorry to hear that
although i hqve friends, still when i have bad days
this illness is somthing that culd be seen…
tht isolating from th “normees”
cool 
nice to hear that.
did this isolation feelings came from inner ill state?
yue think? or it is what we see on the eyes of the people?
I think more inner state.
I don’t know if i am isolated but when i started to turn to plants and birds for company i think i am lonely.
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I am going to start going to a local centre run by a charity once a week to see if I can break the cycle. It might not work but I am going to try
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oh wow thats so cool.
wish you to meet nice people and have a nice time
well done thats grate
I’m glad you have friends! Good and bad days come ago, just a matter of how to best get through the bad times while dealing with this illness.
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Yeah i do. 1515
At first it was horrible, but now I enjoy it.
My window has cardboard over it. I could go out and be at ease if everyone disappeared.
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