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Hello – I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions where you could be in proximity to people but not have to interact with them. I am looking for some place where I can rely on going on a consistent basis and can just sit in the corner as if invisible, and be around people but not have any involvement (nor any expectation on their part of my current or future involvement) with them. I tried to get this in therapy but my therapist is unreliable in providing consistent appointments, and it is a very expensive method given I have no desire to talk to the therapist and just want to sit there in silence.
I have no desire for social interaction or overcoming my social issues – I just want somewhere “to go” on a regular basis. I live alone, work full-time, am very depressed and my only activity is going to therapy – which is not meeting the needs I described above. I just want “something” to give me structure at least once or twice a week after work hours (or even more days than that, if it was an environment that worked for me). Ideally, I could bring my dog as well.
I don’t think there are any after work hours therapy groups I could join – and I expect they would want you to participate in any case. I envision something like AA, where I believe you can just attend and not speak – but I feel it would be “wrong” to go to an AA or similar meeting all the time if that wasn’t my issue – because I’d just be “using” their group to meet my unrelated needs and they would be rightfully angry with me if they found out. I have no issue with “working”….doing volunteer work… but all of that involves human interaction on various levels – I don’t want that. I have debated just going and sitting in a church – some advertise “open praying” times in the evenings…but like AA, if I am not there to pray, it seems wrong. Just sitting in a shopping mall, I would worry about getting in trouble for “loitering”…and that environment to be honest freaks me out.
Wondering if you might have any suggestions? Thanks!
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