Choosing to be alone and being lonely are two very distinct feelings. So where does the line between being lonely and choosing to be alone become blurred? I sometimes get into moods where I feel like alone time is much needed and everyone just seems annoying to me. It’s also sometimes the idea of socializing makes me sick to my stomach. Now this could be my anxiety playing a role, but I am not sure. I do know that having anxiety alone is one of the most isolating, lonely things to have and or experience in your life time. You become your own worst enemy, you just get so trapped inside your own head. For me, my own head is a dangerous place sometimes. So being alone and taking time for yourself, whether its because you feel like talking or socializing is just not it for the time being or just taking time to heal from whatever it is that needs healing is good, Thats being ostracized from society in the healthiest way possible. Now I am no therapist or psychologist, but I will say that the moment the self isolation becomes isolation by your anxiety, depression or mind thats when it is not so healthy. I think that the moment the alone time becomes being lonely and you become cut off from the world is when you have convinced yourself that you are completely and utterly alone in the worst way possible.