Hugs arfie

Lately there has been more research of what loneliness can do to a person is biological. The human animal is a social animal and a healthy biochemistry depends on loving human interaction.

I have been alone most of my life and I know is not healthy. But I am very triggered by people. Then again I do not know really mentally healthy people in my real life. Only here people seem to be aware and more honest or genuine.

My loner tendencies are strong enough that I don't believe I am even capable of being a social butterfly. I don't even really enjoy fantasies of being a social superstar. I like my privacy, thank you kindly. How much is nature and how much is nurture seems irrelevant to me.

Still, my more dramatic psychotic breaks have supplied considerable evidence that isolating is unhealthy in the extreme. The difference between being alone and being lonely has grown to be an item on my daily inventory.

cyber-hugs

I don't believe I could be a social butterfly again either arf......although I used to be really social

I do think the aloneness at times can hurt me.... the whirling mind thing going on

At those times even getting out for a walk and being 'in' the world helps some.... along with a prn at times...sigh

Big squishy hug.....xo

i cherish my alone time; i have and for so many good, valid reasons. then, i have had to stay in and down because of being sick :(

the ptsd aloneness is painful though. i hear you. i feel that pain-echo here and that hurts too. (((hugs))) it seems it doesn't matter if we are surrounded by people, we still feel very alone with this.

there is something different about it, that way that the feeling has changed to cut off from instead of stepped away from. it seems more of a cannot connext instead of don't want to connect. for me. that is how i am feeling today about it.

let me add how grateful i am for all of you here and how connected, accepted and understood i feel here xo

Lilly really wrote it better than I could rite now, I haven’t been good with words the last few days. I very much so relate with what she wrote.
Gentlest of hugs to you <3

I think it is bigger than a trigger, arfie. So many of us have trouble with socializing and really need our personal space to not be invaded, which makes the bonding we do manage to do with people few and far between.

I went from totally isolating myself, to bonding with my wife and then hiding behind her in most social settings, so now I am isolating again.

I think it's the trust issue that leads to the loneliness of this disorder.

there is a huge difference though between being alone and being lonely. I am lonely sitting in a room at every social function filled to the brim with people, but I am not often lonely when I am alone.

at least that is me~