Have you overthought lonliness?

[spartie]

It's becoming more and more often now that I have my own apartment and live alone, but I feel lonely at times. Rather, I think I feel lonely.

I'm not sure if what I feel is actually lonliness, or if its anxiety because I feel trapped. I don't particularly want to be alone, but the idea of being not alone is too terrifying to be a viable option.

Thoughts?

 

[planemo]

Yeah, that's very well put. It seems as if it's a paradoxical feeling of both wanting out, and not willing to let in. Sometimes being so alone really bothers me, but as you say it seems too terrifying to be viable, that you just go along with the isolation. It's a bit of a conundrum, I feel people like us need to deal with constantly.