A short monologue by Nick Stumbo reflecting on a paradox where recognizing that isolation is harmful can itself cause discomfort that leads people to isolate further. He describes a self-perpetuating cycle: awareness of loneliness prompts discomfort, which triggers avoidance and continued isolating behaviors.
And I know if I've experienced this, that in isolation I start to feel lonely or in isolating, I know it's not good for me. I need to break out of it. But that discomfort of that realization causes me to want to isolate even more. It's that thing that, well, I'm already here. And it's funny because. And what I'm trying to get at is that because we start to feel that way, or maybe have even identified that isolation is bad. That discomfort is one of the things that causes us to go to those unwanted behaviors. And then that cycle just continues and continues, and.
