Isolation But Going Out In Public

[Iwajo]

I'm confused about some aspects of isolation or maybe just withdrawing from romantic relationships. Can you withdraw from your SO but still want to do social things with other people including family members? Is it sometimes just romantic relationships that you withdraw from?

 

[Ized]

I think my SO bears the brunt of the majority of my symptoms, my outbursts etc. With others I put on that facade.

I try to appear normal and bottle it up.

I guess my SO accepts me despite all my flaws. The real question being, why do we hurt the ones really precious?

 

[Hagine]

The more involved a relationship is, the more energy goes into it. For me, there are different stages.
- Intimate relationships (family & close friends),
- close relationships (work, occasional friends),
- brief purposeful encounters (church, PTA/ other parents),
- hello human (gas station, post carrier, waitress).

^^^^ This is an excerpt from probably one of my better explanations of how I isolate... Which happens to include my own person scale of social interaction :P In short, yes. Not only is it possible to isolate from only one person or area of my life, but it's both my MO & a direct reflection of how well I'm doing. For the whole post link through Question For Sufferers

 

[Boze]

I generally isolated from the world, but have isolated from just my ex husband. All the emotions, the expectations, the love....basically the whole aspect of a close relationship would just become too much for me.

 

[Owi]

Yes, isolation from one person i.e. a partner is common and definitely a part of PTSD.

The term isolation gives a sense of totality but this is oftentimes not the case.