shenk.xis :
This is actually a lot more common than people realize, especially after prolonged stress, burnout, betrayal, trauma, emotional overload, or constantly feeling psychologically ‘on guard.’ Over time, the nervous system can start associating home with safety, predictability, control, and emotional recovery while the outside world starts feeling overstimulating, draining, performative, or emotionally unsafe.
The dangerous part is that isolation can slowly start feeling comfortable while simultaneously making emotional exhaustion, anxiety, depression, loneliness, and avoidance worse underneath the surface. A lot of people think they’re just becoming introverted, when sometimes their nervous system is actually exhausted from surviving too long in environments that never felt emotionally safe to begin with.
2026-06-09 12:15:39