Have you faced extreme social isolation?

Not me.

They don't feel lucky. Believe me.

Things don't have to be the way they were... stop looking back & look to your future. Study, pass your test and start your life.

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OP, are you the duckling?

Thanks R3. I think it's time to hit the restart on my life too. I can't wait until the exam is over.

Yes, self imposed. Especially when in dead end towns.

Looking back, as I was rejected by the "in crowds," I isolated myself even more socially for fear of rejection.

It means you built inner resources when young. What didn't kill you made you stronger. And more empathetic. People needily always part of a crowd will flounder when life pulls its trapdoor, as it usually does. Company can be great, but self-reliance is a vital default.

[QUOTE]It means you built inner resources when young. What didn't kill you made you stronger. And more empathetic. People needily always part of a crowd will flounder when life pulls its trapdoor, as it usually does. Company can be great, but self-reliance is a vital default.

Yes because the OP/Program Troll is the epitome of strength and moral fiber.

LMAO R10. Literally spat water out of my mouth when I read it. Thank you, I needed the laugh.

For the love of all things decent, John! Haven't you taken that fucking test yet? It's this unending, epic saga, you and that fucking test and all your goddamn anxiety and random, text vomiting of every single thing about which you've ever wondered. You said you'd go to therapy and post here less once you take that test, but it has been months and you are still studying, and posting. Take it, for fuck's sake! You are infintely dull. Stop dwelling on your sad past and deal with your sad present. Everything that's wrong with you is totally within your power to change. So study and grow up or at least think...TRY...to think of something interesting or, ideally, not pathetic to say!

When I went to a small Catholic HS most of the people there were friends from grade school. When we moved and I went to a huge public HS with over 1500 students I thought I'd have a good chance of making friends. From grade 11 to graduation no matter what clubs I joined or tried to do to make friends I was shunned. Those were the loneliest two years of my life. Like R8 wrote you begin to distance yourself from people out of fear of rejection until you become completely alone.

Yes, I was extremely isolated in HS.

I went to a small high school in a shitty little redneck town. I was the new kid who moved there from the city. All the kids there had known each other since kindergarten and no matter how hard I tried to fit in I was always the weird new kid.

I am thankful for the years I isolated myself because I got away from all the usual peer pressure and drama of high school.

Pretty much everyone from my high school ended up pregnant or in jail...so yeah I'm happy I isolated myself.

I don't know if the OP really is who I think they are, but if they are I hope you get better and I honestly enjoy reading your posts. I'm in a similar situation and I'm rooting for you!

OP are you PMBT?

Look, High School is one thing. There are still a lot of cruel and bully behaviours and people. Its quite rare for someone to be socially rejected by everyone at college. If you were isolated at college, it was your own social challenges.

When are you going to pay the piper, face the music, step to the plate. You have a social challenge of some sort, as everyone in DataLounge has remarked upon, AND as your own teachers have suggested. You need therapy.

Professionals can help you find a way to better integration and more happiness.

And cut down on the inane thread posts here. Post things like this, or things that are genuine to you. Enough with the crap ass threads that are nothing but brain sharts and your need to I dunno what. Failed attempts to connect, I suppose. Or work out your misc obsessions.

As the Ghost of Christmas Past told Scrooge:

These are shadows of things that have been. They are what they are. If they're not to your liking, don't blame me.

Uh, yeah......