I’ve been isolated for too long and I have zero people skills. Well, almost zero. I hold myself back from reacting rudely. Sometimes I just can’t help it. Can anyone relate? Being alone doesn’t have to make me crazy does it?
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No mate. Ive been isolating for years. I dont get on with the public either. Only time i venture out, is 400 yards down the road for milk or ciggies. Its not unusual for me to see no-one for a couple of weeks or more. All the shopping and bills is done online.
Its just how i deal with it. The mental health team have tried to get me to socialise for ages - but i never have none of it.
So long as your happy, like i am - who cares? 
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I find dealing with people a huge struggle , I just can’t and sometimes come across as extremely rude. I really try even at jobs but I can’t deal with work stress. I’m trying to find a job where I don’t have to deal with many people.
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It doesn’t help. Pandemic isolation cost me years of personal growth with public interaction. I recently volunteered at a charity casino and it was very difficult for me. It wouldn’t have been back in 2019.
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I lost my social skills after about 12 years of isolation. I was never that great with them but way better than i am now. I saw a doctor a few days ago who diagnosed me with autism. I kinda wonder if he woulda said that if i didnt isolate myself for 12 years. I did have signs as a toddler but isolation def made me stranger.
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I belive less interaction with people would slow down just about anybody. And unfortunately this is what’s all about, being lonely. Like imprisonment without a prison, but with a lifetime sentence.
We are lucky for having internet, at least we can comunicate between each other.
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I isolate as well.
I don’t like the way most people treat me so I avoid most people and avoid going out.
Although they were nice to me at local pub when I went there for lunch.
I’m in bed mostly all day and night.
So difficult socialising with people.
Couldn’t volunteer because of it n I had no space to be me kinda.
I’m uncomfortable around most people too I think.
Most uncomfortable around my “family”.I don’t think they are my real family and they have been so horrible to me and look n talk down at me n disrespect n attack with bad vibes or fakeness etc so I avoid them .
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Funny but it’s precisely 12 years.12 years ago I moved to my new apartment. I move in placed myself in my arm chair swith on the Tv so now I have been sitting down and watched.Tv for 12.years only to leave the apartment twice a week to buy grosseries for mum and me.
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Yep 15 characters
I can relate. But for me its a bit different - sometimes I can be very shy around new people. Before my illness it was never like that.
I was waay more brave
Also, because I am shaky from time to time, I become afraid that people will notice that, and I become even more shy then
Also, sometimes I fear that I forgot a certain word, and that people will think I have poor memory xd
I remember after my first hospital I also thought that I can act rudely, because deep inside I really misunderstood what hapenned and I was hurt because of how my life changed.
Overall everyday I try to stay as social as its possible, and it helps
So sad because that happend to me after seccond hospitalization: i was really hurt how my life changed.
After the first hospitalization I did not come to my senses and I was manipulated by psychosis.
Sometimes one needs a strong experience in order to see the truth.
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