Quora: What happens to an #introvert if she/he can never be alone?
https://www.quora.com/What-happens-to-an-introvert-if-she-he-can-never-be-alone
A huge number of detailed answers ... hoooo-lee shit, how did these people get inside my head?
My therapists didn't provide diagnoses, they were lacanian and believed that putting labels on thing was wrong, it cut out questions and questions were the sauce of their method
So I didn' t consider I was an inthrovert
I recognized introversion later in life, reading on the internet !
@catonano yup, and being an introvert is a fine way to be, it just comes with a set of advantages and challenges like any other trait.
American culture is very heavily biased toward extroverts and tends to consider introversion somewhat pathological, which is frustrating and makes life much more difficult for introverts here than it should be.
@catonano I just came across the question by doing web searches.
It's good to know how interaction affects one's state of being. I am glad I went to the retreat, for example, but it definitely drained me. Even going to individual therapy today will drain me. I also declined some child care jobs despite badly needing the money because it is not healthy to take them right now.
I am worn out much less by socializing when my life is stable & healthy, but right now it's not.
@muninn is that an anonymous question ?
Anyway, this reminds me of something about me
I have been going to some residential group therapy groups for 5 years.
One weekend a month, we gathered in a hotel.
And we did group analythic therapy
Interaction was the bread and butter of the whole thing
When I came back from there I was devastated, I could barely walk
It was extremely draining
I didn' t realize that I was challenging my introversion until many years later !