Why is isolation "wrong"?

[intothelight]

I think that isolation is the severe withdrawal from relationships and activities that a person had been previously engaged in for an extended period of time. Everyone has their own "normal" but it is the deviation from that normal that can be harmful.

 

[shell]

For me isolating when I was depressed from others I had previously enjoyed a safe relationship with is a very bad thing, it fed the spiral downwards, into a very unsafe place. Withdrawing enables me to justify why life isn't worth living, because I no longer felt connected to anyone or anything.

By nature I am a very reserved person, and don't feel the need to be part of a large social network, and being in crowds, just triggers me due to the noise and feeling unsafe. Being comfortable with alone time and socializing with a few safe people is very different to isolating.

Isolating is when I wish everyone would just leave me alone, because I can't stand feeling or talking or thinking because I am so consumed with loathing, sadness and self absorbed in my own misery.

 

[Tinyflame]

A thousand 'likes' to shell's post above, my experience exactly. Very hard to drag myself out of, if not near impossible on my own, mentally, emotionally and physically.