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Why Trauma Can Make Solitude Feel Dangerous

I cannot be alone in the house anymore without feeling like something terrible is going to happen

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The nervous system has learned to associate being alone with vulnerability, activating threat responses in the absence of others' protective presence.

Ideas that help explain it
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