Complete and utter isolation.

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Truth be told, I haven't talked to anyone I know personally since February, and it seems normal to me. I've gone through periods of extreme withdrawal throughout my life but this one has really left me high and dry, I've been gradually isolating myself from people for two years. A lot of it has to do with living alone, once i get used to not interacting with anyone it easily becomes normal. I don't really get lonely.

So, I have to force myself to find employment and get back in school. what I worry about is not feeling strange around people again. Once I've been in one of my "dark ages' for long enough I have tremendous difficulty with even the smallest social interaction, ESPECIALLY with strangers. I feel like they're going to be able to tell that I never talk to anyone, and when I try to make new friends, aren't these people going to wonder why I have no friends to begin with? In the past it was much easier because I could just pick friends up at school and everyone knew each other, I didn't seem like as much of a loner. I had friends after that, but I grew apart from the gradually and at 25 I'm completely alone.

Not whining...just wondering how many people have gone through this. Did you start to feel "normal" around others pretty quickly? At leaat normal enough to get by? I want to go back to my old, friendly self but it was just an act anyway. I don't know if I'm going to be able to pull it off again.

I've done it many times. It's just an act, and it can be revived fairly easily. Don't worry about what they may be thinking. Normies don't think that much about trivial exchanges, and even if they do it doesn't matter in the grand scheme. After you get used to trivial stuff again, you will be ready for more important things like school and work.

It's still an act and still unfulfilling, but not hard to start doing again, I find.