Every psychology text on the planet warns against isolation. And yet here we are. I say ‘we’ assuming that there are a couple others here like me who have ghosted their friends, cut off all social mingling, or in some cases quit walking out the door unless it’s an absolute necessity.
The thing is, nature seems to have built this self-destructive mechanism into us. When animals are sick or in pain what’s the first thing they do? They go off by themselves somewhere. Cats will crawl into some hole under the house, elephants go to their graveyards and pick out a plot… you rarely see sick […]