Dr. Aziz breaks down why we isolate ourselves and what it costs us. We tell ourselves we don't need people, or we're too busy, or socializing feels too uncertain. Weeks of isolation spike anxiety and kill your mood. Your brain needs other people to function.
Isolating yourself kills your confidence and creates all kinds of health problems, mental problems. You just feel bad. But there's three reasons we keep doing it. I'm going to share what they are and how to shift it. Number one is you tell yourself, I don't really need that. You know, I don't really need. I don't really feel a hunger to spend time with people. That's just not my thing. And what do we do instead? Well, I got the scrolling, I got my screen, I got all the stuff I get to do on my own. So we tell ourselves we don't need it. Number two, tell ourselves it's going to be uncomfortable, you know, to be around people and share and there's uncertainty and unknown things, and maybe I'm going to have feelings. I don't want to deal with all that. And so we tell ourselves it's too uncomfortable. A third thing you might tell yourself is, I'm just so busy, I don't have the time. And the end result is that maybe not instantly, but over the course of weeks or months, you'll start to feel more ungrounded, more anxious, more down, more depressed, more irritable. Might say, I don't know why, I don't know why. Because you're not feeding your need for human connection, which is the core primary need of every single person on the planet.
