Anybody else here isolate all the time?

I do bad. It's bc, it hurts to move bc of my back, I don't drive and the closest bus is a mile away and I feel paranoid and embarrassed about my weight.

Anybody relate?

I do start a new group tomorrow. It's an art therapy group. So that will help a little.

[glok]

Hello, sunshine1995. Good luck with the art therapy group.

[Sometimes psychotic]

I don't do it all the time but I do it a lot. Sure I go to work every day but I don't socialize much there. If I'm lucky I see a friend once a week but it's been less for the last few months...I'm trying very hard to pull out of my slump. I met someone off Craigslist last weekend she is a housekeeper from Hungary and into crystal healing and stuff. Sometimes all you can do is push yourself out of your comfort zone. Today I'm cleaning the heck out of my condo so I can have people over without feeling like a total slob.

Originally Posted by sunshine1995

Anybody else here isolate all the time?

I do bad. It's bc, it hurts to move bc of my back, I don't drive and the closest bus is a mile away and I feel paranoid and embarrassed about my weight.

Anybody relate?

I do start a new group tomorrow. It's an art therapy group. So that will help a little.

Congratulations Sunshine1995, on taking a positive step to address your isolation! There are many people here on PC, as well as within the population in general, who could learn something from your example. There's a song from the Cultural Revolution in China that begins: "Step by step, the longest march, can be done, can be done. Many stones build an arch, singly done, singly done..." It's a song we would all benefit from learning!

Depression makes me isolate as well as my paranoia and fear of social situations. I also have back pain and am over weight. I prefer isolation as much as possible. But I do force myself to work and get out when I can.

[TheatreKid]

Isolation makes me depressed which makes me isolate more, which feeds into the depression.

I've been trying to figure out if I'm hypomanic or normal lately, because I CRAVE socializing, but I think that what I thought was my baseline for so long was actually me slightly depressed. I'm a little loud right now but totally within normal range in my little friend circle of actors and theatre kids.

[newtus]

i isolate because of paranoia and anxiety and my depression. its hard because im the rural too. i hate driving a long way everywhere. but i am very scared of people. i always have been. ive opened up in the last year but not much. so i isolate a lot. i occupy my time by sleeping and walking around in my house. thats about it.

Yeah I forgot to mention my anxiety too.

Thanks for the responses. I'm hoping doing this group will motivate me. And instead of just coming home to hide, that I go for a walk.

[kenshin99]

I have come to realize how isolated I have made myself. My anxiety and paranoia have taken over my life to the point I don't even want to go to the grocery store. I am working to change my ways. I am forcing myself to go to the store and to at least spend a little time with immediate family. One step at time that's all we can do.

Originally Posted by kenshin99

I have come to realize how isolated I have made myself. My anxiety and paranoia have taken over my life to the point I don't even want to go to the grocery store. I am working to change my ways. I am forcing myself to go to the store and to at least spend a little time with immediate family. One step at time that's all we can do.

Thank u for ur response. Yeah this isolation feels like such a waste of life. I've gotta go get ready to go to this group and I'm anxious. I hope once I get there it will be easier...

[junkDNA]

hope ur group goes ok. ive been isolating too. i feel more lonely than i used to. i used to feel comfortable isolating but now i feel like i want someone to talk to or just laugh with and hang out. i have people i can contact but i always talk myself out of it.

[supershopper103]

Originally Posted by sunshine1995

Anybody else here isolate all the time?

I do bad. It's bc, it hurts to move bc of my back, I don't drive and the closest bus is a mile away and I feel paranoid and embarrassed about my weight.

Anybody relate?

I do start a new group tomorrow. It's an art therapy group. So that will help a little.

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I worry about my weight too. Always have. I feel like I'm always being scrutinized. I like to isolate. Not as many worries then.