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Awis
Many different ways.
Most profoundly by walking away from my life. I leave my home, job, friends, family, everyone who knows me behind; don't bring my phone, email, or any other way for people who know me to contact me; and go several thousand miles away. Sometimes to be entirely alone, sometimes to simply -or eventually- start over a new life (renting a place to live, working a job, etc.) without updating the people I left behind with my contact info.
Less profoundly, by changing or ignoring my means of contact (phone, email, etc.), and maintaining my past life in either an incredibly narrow fashion, or by changing everything except one or two things (job, or physical address, or one or two means of communication), but neither contacting -nor allowing contact- with or from anyone I care about.
Isolating, for me, has virtually nothing to do with individuals and is entirely to do with my own head. How severely I can no longer deal with people, or the world... Or how badly I want to protect the people I care about from myself. When I'm protecting the people I care about, I may well remain social with people I DGAF about. Or I may close off my life from x% of the world and only keep a very small number of people in it. When I cannot deal with the world at all? Very different picture. People lived for 60,000 some odd years in caves and tents. It's not exactly a difficult thing to do. Being a part of society; living in a house, town, city; working a job, paying bills, buying stuff... That's a choice. A way of life. Not a necessity. Not the only way.
I don't isolate OTHERS. I isolate MYSELF. Until I can deal with people or the world again.
