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How to Sit with Yourself When Solitude Triggers Trauma

I cannot tolerate being alone with my thoughts for more than five minutes without panic setting in so I stay constantly busy and distracted.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The internal landscape feels dangerous when it was never safe to be present with one's own experience.

Ideas that help explain it
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