Exoparadapsyphobia

I think being alone is good for you sometimes. Maybe not for extended periods like weeks or months on end for the normal person (as sometimes I have because of my bipolar disorder) but a few hours or a few days never hurts. It gives you some time to explore yourself and just think about things, your life, your philosophy, the world, other people, just things like that. Great contemporary thinkers and those of the past have exiled themselves for months/years to cross examine themselves or to learn more about the world that you can only learn by being completely alone.

As for myself when I lived with my dad for 3 years I was alone for much of that time except for my cat (which is why I moved there, because I knew it would be that way), because I was anti-social and my dad worked 8-10 hour days and was gone all the time. And I think that changed me for the better in some ways, it gave me a lot of time to just sit and think and analyze myself which a lot of people in our country at least don't do anymore. Of course after awhile I did get pretty lonely which is why I moved back in with my other family, and now I'm never alone even when I want to be hehe. Even us anti-social kids have their limits...

But when I came back my mom did notice I was an entirely different person, and she liked this new person. I was more patient, calm, analytical and understanding than I had been when I moved away. And now we have a way better relationship than we did when I first left. So being "exiled" did change me in some very positive ways. There were some downsides to it, like depression and thoughts of suicide sometimes, but I got through that and was rewarded with a new and improved personality.

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