The problem with long term isolation is you become insane and weird and unpalatable and unrelatable and itโs seemingly impossible to ever forge meaningful connections with people ever again
The day I stopped treating every text & call as an emergency, the second part of my life started. Suddenly I was standing where the road splits into 2 paths- solitude and community.
being high functioning depressed sometimes makes you forget what help is too. you could be at your lowest about to die and go "yeah I'll ride this one out"
I talk to myself out loud because sometimes I have 6 pending thoughts, 2 lingering in the shadows that I keep trying to remember then a new thought comes, I give it my attention, which causes the others to riot so I tell the new thought ๐ญ : Do you wanna step out for a bit?