Retreating
What is Retreating?
Pulling back from people by choice or by exhaustion. Sometimes isolation is self-protective.
When you might feel retreating
Retreating is a specific form of withdrawn, which itself is a type of isolated. You might experience this feeling in situations where isolated is present, particularly when the circumstances align with the nuances that define retreating.
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Open Connection & Loneliness WheelRelated Emotions
Physically or socially without others. The absence of people around you is real,...
Others have connection — you don't. Being on the outside looking in....
You've stopped being in people's thoughts. Out of sight, out of mind — and it hu...
Present but concealed. You're around people but not really there....
Connection feels too risky or costly. Keeping distance as a defence....
You don't belong to the groups around you. A stranger in the spaces you inhabit....