Solitude

[jmni]

I have been keeping to myself now for the past five months. I have a little interaction. But I don't have any friends apart from my online friends. I have not been working either.

It's so nice because I have not be around anyone awful in so long.

I guess I am a hermit or a recluse or something. I live in the country. And my neighbors don't hate me because of my occasional outbursts. No one is mean.

Finally I feel "together." I am not on any medication right now and apart from certain triggers my ptsd and anxiety are much better. I finally feel sort of ok and ready to go back into the world. I don't feel really nervous or scared at all and it's fine.

Months ago I thought I almost looked sick. But now I'm back to looking like myself again.

Under certain conditions I think loneliness is a good thing.

 

[Lady of Longbourn]

Being alone is not always a bad thing. Sometimes you really do need time for yourself to recover,grow and form your own identity after trauma.

 

[Philippa]

I've just started coming out of my hermit phase. I'm enjoying being more social than ever before, and tend to attract much kinder people in general. I think I've become much kinder as well, so like attracts like in that regard. I also have cut all meanies from my social circle.

It needs to be done sometimes to heal, as Ayesha has already stated. Enjoy your time alone I say.

 

[The Hermit King]

I am such a damn hermit these days, I literally have been staring at this post for 20 minutes trying to reply. :(