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I'm still working on getting myself out of a similar hole, but what you've said resonates with me.

It is difficult to see how isolation can have a negative impact on your life, given (in my case) that the social isolation was part of the plan to control all the variables.

Anyway it was only obvious to me in retrospect that I was doing myself a disservice by refusing invitations to hang out and seeing long calls with my friends and family something that were "taking away" from my precious time.

Stoic literature might also be of interest to the OP if you are reading this still.



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