What happens to you psychologically while alone?

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We've all been left alone for a few days. Alone, with little or no physical or emotional contact with others, no one to help or guide us, no one to give comfort.

Is it any wonder some of us go a little bit crazy?

I myself become incredibly paranoid. Even though I live rurally in the sleepiest place in the world, I carry my pocket knife with me everywhere, wear warm and heavy clothes, grow out my facial hair (for some reason...) try to find comfort in anything and everything, I begin to truly fear death, think about if there really is a God and a Devil and start to half-believe in stupid fucking things like 2012 and the Illuminati.

It turns me from a proud and confident guy, walking with my chest thrown out and a smile on my face, into a creeping skulker, hunched over on myself and clinging desperately to comforts.

It's bizzare and unnerving, and pretty damn scary to know this can happen to myself, that I am truly this fragile.

Why I'm making this thread? It's happening to me right now, and I find it fascinating...
Is it just my survival instincts kicking in? I don't know.

What happens to you, if anything? What strange turns does your thinking take? What happens to your temperament?

 

[manaman]

I just get bored. Then I play some video games. It takes a couple of days before I get antsy anyway.

You might be losing your mind there buddy.

 

[The Salty Vulcan]

To be honest, nothing happens. I continue as normal. Actually, I prefer solitude to company. To me, its like a warm blanket.

 

[default]

I just get board. Then I play some video games. It takes a couple of days before I get antsy anyway.

You might be losing your mind there buddy.

I think I am. I do not operate well alone... I'm a people person

I'm also pretty scared, just about stupid things. Bloody apocalyptic thoughts. Some comfort would be nice

EDIT:

I also think it was a massive shock. I just spent a day in the city with the girl I love, people bustling all around me and so many things happening, and I come home to an empty and silent house in a vast and quiet landscape... Usually it takes a few days for the insanity to set in!!

 

[_Janny_]

Just pop in a video game that's immersive or read a book you love. You'll forget you're alone in no-time. I've never been left alone too much, but I probably wouldn't be that much affected seeing as I adore being by myself.

 

[Flames66]

I generally enjoy being alone, gives me time to myself to think about things and do what I want to do without interruptions.

 

[The Man With the Soap]

I continue with PT. My SOP.

 

[Trippy Turtle]

this is pretty much me in a nutshell. except i don't believe in the devil or god and i like to watch comedys to take my mind off things..... fucking human centerpede.

 

[dudycat1]

i dont care really if im alone ill just play on a good game, read or watch stuff on my tv. i can live without company i have the internet.

 

[Manicotti]

That's actually why I'm still awake right now. I'm 300 miles away from any of my friends waiting for school to start up, so I can be even farther from them while I spend the next four years getting a second bachelor degree because my first one is functionally useless. The only girl interested in me currently lives in Hawaii and we're on a strictly "friends only" mode until we get our personal affairs taken care of. And that interest is iffy at best. I don't have the money or space or even clarity of mind to pursue the studying or even personal hobbies I've been working on even when I've had since September of mostly free time, temp jobs notwithstanding. I have a pretty big library on Steam but none of it is interesting. The only things I've been able to think of for the last two months are the jobs, girlfriends, and opportunities I've lost for either no reason at all or because of something stupid I did. In the end, I am alone and a failure. That is what happens to my thought process.

 

[Scolar Visari]

I continue with PT. My SOP.

I hear that.

I can usually last quite a while alone, being a pretty solitary person, but even I have my limits. Solid routines like exercising and weapon maintenance are the only thing that keeps my mind wandering into weird places.

 

[smithy_2045]

The longer I spend without human contact, the more depressed and demotivated I become.

 

[manaman]

I just get board. Then I play some video games. It takes a couple of days before I get antsy anyway.

You might be losing your mind there buddy.

I think I am. I do not operate well alone... I'm a people person

I'm also pretty scared, just about stupid things. Bloody apocalyptic thoughts. Some comfort would be nice

EDIT:

I also think it was a massive shock. I just spent a day in the city with the girl I love, people bustling all around me and so many things happening, and I come home to an empty and silent house in a vast and quiet landscape... Usually it takes a few days for the insanity to set in!!

Getting board and letting your mind wander isn't insanity. I kinda hate to phrase it this way but: Don't be melodramatic. Give a friend a call, you are not going to get any kind of comfort online after all. Play some video games. Or watch a movie. Just give your mind something to focus on.

 

[Paksenarrion]

I damn well better have something to distract me if I'm alone. Like Minecraft. Or Civilization. Or Minecraft: Civilization.

I don't want to spend any time in self-assessment. It only leads to thoughts of homicide or suicide.

 

[thahat]

We've all been left alone for a few days. Alone, with little or no physical or emotional contact with others, no one to help or guide us, no one to give comfort.

Is it any wonder some of us go a little bit crazy?

I myself become incredibly paranoid. Even though I live rurally in the sleepiest place in the world, I carry my pocket knife with me everywhere, wear warm and heavy clothes, grow out my facial hair (for some reason...) try to find comfort in anything and everything, I begin to truly fear death, think about if there really is a God and a Devil and start to half-believe in stupid fucking things like 2012 and the Illuminati.

It turns me from a proud and confident guy, walking with my chest thrown out and a smile on my face, into a creeping skulker, hunched over on myself and clinging desperately to comforts.

It's bizzare and unnerving, and pretty damn scary to know this can happen to myself, that I am truly this fragile.

Why I'm making this thread? It's happening to me right now, and I find it fascinating...
Is it just my survival instincts kicking in? I don't know.

What happens to you, if anything? What strange turns does your thinking take? What happens to your temperament?

none what so ever. BUT. i do cheat and turn on the tv while im not in the tv room ( gives the mind some sound to compare other sounds to, and not let the silence boggle me into allertness ) vut it might just be that our house is spooky enough so im just not fased by the alone-ness.
pitch darkness is the shed between the freezers and ahving to walk 10 meters in it first to get to the light switch, that gets me scared enough though XD. ( but i dodge it by having a pocket flashlight :3 )

 

[Lawnmooer]

I tend to have more conversations with my self, give inanimate objects personalities, talk to said inanimate objects and think about everything in a slightly different way.

But other than that I stay pretty much the same, probably due to the fact that I'm on my own a lot and most of the time other people just annoy me...

 

[default]

I just get board. Then I play some video games. It takes a couple of days before I get antsy anyway.

You might be losing your mind there buddy.

I think I am. I do not operate well alone... I'm a people person

I'm also pretty scared, just about stupid things. Bloody apocalyptic thoughts. Some comfort would be nice

EDIT:

I also think it was a massive shock. I just spent a day in the city with the girl I love, people bustling all around me and so many things happening, and I come home to an empty and silent house in a vast and quiet landscape... Usually it takes a few days for the insanity to set in!!

Getting board and letting your mind wander isn't insanity. I kinda hate to phrase it this way but: Don't be melodramatic. Give a friend a call, you are not going to get any kind of comfort online after all. Play some video games. Or watch a movie. Just give your mind something to focus on.

Haha, of course I know it's not insanity, that's what the winky-face signified

I just find it interesting how my mind begins to work this way, and I wonder why...

 

[The Salty Vulcan]

I damn well better have something to distract me if I'm alone. Like Minecraft. Or Civilization. Or Minecraft: Civilization.

I don't want to spend any time in self-assessment. It only leads to thoughts of homicide or suicide.

Oh you can't be that bad. You make me laugh

 

[Monkfish Acc.]

To be honest, nothing happens. I continue as normal. Actually, I prefer solitude to company. To me, its like a warm blanket.

this lol

No, but really, this is like precisely it.
There is nothing I can add here.