Shame and guilt will not make it better. Isolation, I think we all need to some point, whether we have ptsd or not. I get an awful lot of it during the day, since I don't work and the family is gone working/school. Sometimes I enjoy it, other times I miss them and feel lonely. I'm horrible about getting out and we are working on that in therapy. Trying to at least once a day. Today I'm going to lunch with my sister, trying not to think of the fear and only the good of it. I mean, I don't even go to my garden by myself.
I use to isolate in my bedroom, on my computer, when I was first coming out of my depression. Even with people here. I didn't have trouble with them coming to the room, just trouble leaving it. I'm not even sure what it was that finally got me venturing into the rest of the house, but, one day, I just stopped hiding.
Other then the trick of leaving, even standing on your stoop, once a day, I have no idea how to adjust. That is just a therapy trick my therapist wants me to use. Doing it is difficult.
I'm sorry for your isolation. Even though I know we all need it from time to time, sometimes it is unhealthy.
I use to isolate in my bedroom, on my computer, when I was first coming out of my depression. Even with people here. I didn't have trouble with them coming to the room, just trouble leaving it. I'm not even sure what it was that finally got me venturing into the rest of the house, but, one day, I just stopped hiding.
Other then the trick of leaving, even standing on your stoop, once a day, I have no idea how to adjust. That is just a therapy trick my therapist wants me to use. Doing it is difficult.
I'm sorry for your isolation. Even though I know we all need it from time to time, sometimes it is unhealthy.
