[Wanderlust90]

Does anyone else get this? If I'm left alone with my thoughts for any extended period of time I tend to not want to socialise afterwards. I can be fine around people, then spend an hour or so alone, in my head, & no longer want to interact or be anywhere near people. I become irritable, can't get off my phone for searching things on the Internet, reading or just thinking or whatever. I chew my nails up & can't write a sentence quick enough, flip between different internet tabs because they won't load fast enough or I become immediately bored or some other question pops into my head & I pursue that instead. Thoughts racing. Then my boyfriend will come home or whatever & I just want to be left alone. I feel interrupted.

Is it a bipolar thing?

[kkrrhh]

I get bad with isolating sometimes. For me it's especially with longer lengths of time, like if I don't leave the house much or at all for a day or 2 or if I end up accidentally being unsocial for a few days, it's harder to be around people after and it's easier to let more time build up isolating.
And a lot of the time, if I get into the mindset of wanting to be alone and then suddenly have to be around people, I get that interrupted feeling too and feel annoyed. I'm not sure whether or not it's a bipolar thing, though, hmm.

[Wanderlust90]

I get where suddenly im desperate for human interaction after isolating too. It seems to come with an air of impulsivity.
I also feel like the longer I do isolate the more & more I want to be alone.
It's so weird when someone else's description of their experience mirrors that of your own. Wonder what's going on here? Or if it's actually considered normal?

[ComfortablyNumb5]

I've lost a lot of friends from my years of isolation. Sometimes it's depression but mostly not. I too go on my phone during these times a lot. Sometimes I just want to wind down after a ten hour work day. My bf works third shift so after work I have no company. At first I enjoy the quiet but by the end of the week I get a bit lonely and bored. But then his kids will come back home and he gets off work for the week and I just want to be alone again! I'll sit in my room with the TV and phone and he gets mad but hey, I like my peace!

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[Ocean Swimmer]

I come to my Ranch in Costa Rica precisely to isolate.
The only voices I hear are my cat and dog. They're the only ones I speak to as well.
On my current med cocktail it's easy to be active on this site and write emls to friends in CA.
When it's real bad I can't go online or answer the phone in CA.
But here I have 12 1/2 acres of beautiful trees, food growing, monkeys, exotic birds.
Besides my pets.
So I'm communing with nature.
Yes. It's a depression bipolar coping mechanism.

[wildflowerchild25]

I definitely isolate in depression. Like I was supposed to take my son to a birthday party today but I can't imagine being around people, especially people I don't know.., for two hours. He doesn't know about it so it's not like he'll be upset if we don't go. I'm also supposed to hang out with my sisters in law tonight and right now I def don't want to. But I'll still go and maybe just leave early. When I'm working and depressed I tend to take a lot of bathroom breaks and just sit in the stall for a few minutes by myself to get away. Right now I'm in a program and finding it very difficult to stay in group. But I'm trying.

[scatterbrained04]

Originally Posted by Wanderlust90

Does anyone else get this? If I'm left alone with my thoughts for any extended period of time I tend to not want to socialise afterwards. I can be fine around people, then spend an hour or so alone, in my head, & no longer want to interact or be anywhere near people. I become irritable, can't get off my phone for searching things on the Internet, reading or just thinking or whatever. I chew my nails up & can't write a sentence quick enough, flip between different internet tabs because they won't load fast enough or I become immediately bored or some other question pops into my head & I pursue that instead. Thoughts racing. Then my boyfriend will come home or whatever & I just want to be left alone. I feel interrupted.

Is it a bipolar thing?

I could have written your post. I totally get the internet thing LOL.

I try really hard not to isolate and be alone in my head. I come here a lot now instead when I have nobody to talk to. I used to isolate a lot more, but I've kind of learned that it only makes things worse.

[4infinity]

Hi, I can so totally relate! For me it's more forced into isolation. I lived in the boonies, quite literally the corn fields for 13 years. I had no neighbors so no contact there. I went to church to sporadically that I didn't make any friends. Between the Lupus and the bi polar I never knew how I was going to feel from day to day so getting a job was pointless, believe I tried. Isolation for me brings on so many negative behaviors. And my thoughts race taking me places I don't want to go. Believe me I relate!

Bi polar 1
Lamictal, klonipin, cymbalta, lithium, abilify and neurontin

[gina_re]

It's so easy to isolate. I live alone and live far from most. I have to make an effort to meet people for socialization. So I pretty much stay to myself as it is. Unless family decide to stop by.

[Keegan2015]

Originally Posted by Ocean Swimmer

I come to my Ranch in Costa Rica precisely to isolate.
The only voices I hear are my cat and dog. They're the only ones I speak to as well.
On my current med cocktail it's easy to be active on this site and write emls to friends in CA.
When it's real bad I can't go online or answer the phone in CA.
But here I have 12 1/2 acres of beautiful trees, food growing, monkeys, exotic birds.
Besides my pets.
So I'm communing with nature.
Yes. It's a depression bipolar coping mechanism.

I envy your private tropical getaway

[cashart10]

I isolate when I am both very depressed and very manic. When I am low I just want to sink into my own misery. When I am very manic, no one can keep up with me and it frustrates the hell out of me.

[BeyondtheRainbow]

I isolated so badly until I moved to live beside my mom to prevent that. Now I see someone daily and get out of my pajamas daily. It's not the thing I would recommend for everyone but it has helped that one problem. If only it could solve them all. But I'm totally isolated otherwise. My therapist and pdoc both have been trying to get me into support groups or drop in center for a long time but I can't find a group that meets at a time I can get there easily that isn't too far away. The drop in center I'm intimidated by and keep trying to put it off until I feel better. They say that won't work but I've been stubborn.