Do you have monophobia?

[EveWasFramed]

Monophobia. Is it real?


Monophobia is defined as an abnormal fear of being alone.
While all of us may feel lonely sometimes, someone with monophobia experiences extreme anxiety when left alone, and the condition can be both socially crippling and extremely frustrating.
This condition is caused by an anxiety disorder, and it may manifest in combination with other anxiety disorder-related symptoms. Someone with monophobia may experience extreme panic attacks when left alone, for example, but he or she may not be able to immediately identify the cause of the panic attacks. A person with this condition might recognize that he or she feels uneasy when left alone, for example, but the patient may not be able to understand that the root cause of his or her panic attacks and distress involves being alone.

In addition to being afraid of being alone, someone who is monophobia may also experience stress of panic in unfamiliar situations. Some monophobes are afraid of being away from particular people or locations, associating these people and situations with safety and familiarity.



Symptoms:

Irrational fear of being alone
Feeling of panic
Feeling of terror
Feeling of dread
Rapid heartbeat
Shortness of breath
Nausea
Dry mouth
Trembling
Anxiety
Extreme avoidance measures taken

 

[yesm]

I've expierenced that at one point in my life. Took a substance that left me extremely empathic and vulnerable to emotional disturbances. For a while I could NOT stand to be alone for any length of time, always had to have at least 1 person around. luckily it didn't last forever or anything. Normally though my personality is that of a loner. I've always been one to just have a close friend or two...

 

[Minus]

.... may also experience stress of panic in unfamiliar situations. Some monophobes are afraid of being away from particular people or locations...

That is about all that would apply to me. I actually enjoy being alone, just hate the fact that i have no other option.

 

[Silvernight]

Although I don't like being completely alone in general (but it's just a dislike, not actual fear), I had a period of severe depression once when I was prepared almost literally to climb walls when I was left alone and burst into a fit of tears every time. I absolutely had to have at least one person around to feel safer. Seems to be the opposite reaction of wanting to isolate yourself when depressed. Luckily, it stopped when that phase of depression passed.

 

[Jesse]

I have the opposite? I like to be alone? I don't like being around ppl at all really.

 

[Lonesome Crow]

well...I went from one extreem to the other.

I didn't actaully lived alone...alone until I was in my mid 30's.
I always had people around me even when i was single. I either had roomates or was in relationship.
For the longest time my ex-gf and I were inseparateable. We never spent a single night without each other.
I remember the first night I had to sleep without her in the same bed. She was in the hospital...even then
I never went home.

I think it was during our 4th or 5th separation that I actaully had to live..live alone without anyone in the house.
It was freaky...man. I had emotional roller coaters and anxieties big time. I couldn't even sit still so I went for a walk..
Not sure why things happened the way it did...but a puppy followed me home that night.
It was as if something knew I needed sometype of a living being to be with me.
The puppy stayed with me for a couple of weeks...I wish i could had kept him.
I had to work through that. Luckily i mate someone that used to call me everynight to keep me company.
I knew I wasn't going to hurt myself...but going through that experince really helped me...
Living alone was one of my biggest fears for the longest time ( abandment issues). I was abandent as a child.
I did that for six months.

It's weird I know...but when i hit my bottom before I got clean and sober....i had the heebee de gee bee big time
I thought there was a ghost in my house...I think i was halucinating from too much dope and staying up beyound a week.
I was seeing stuff...so I was afraid of sleeping...lmao So I did more fucken dope to stay up even more..which cuased me to
freak out even more....So I never went home for 2-3 weeks...I slept in my freaken car.
People were like ..WTF you're not homeless how come you're sleeping in your car?lol
What's weird about it is...when i get really, really up set now and then, I'll go sleep in my car...lmao

Well... after Jenni died. I pretty much isolated myself from everyone. No monophobia there...
On top of that, I saw her face or felt her presence all the time.
Sometimes I'll catch myself answering her as if she was still here.
It was really weird...I was in love with a dead woman. Yet i wasn't scared of ghost like I used to be.
I experienced that clean and sober. A part of me felt like I was going out of my fucken mind...becuase I wasn't
getting ****** up out of my fucken mind...Yet another part of me felt it was okay.

It was wierd...becuase my mind and body adjusted to being alone. I remember when I first tried to be around
people...I remember sitting at my desk after returning back to work...I wanted to vommit and was shaking all the time,
going through withdraws....of being alone.
Most of the people that works in the office i knew previously. Hahahahaaaa...after about a month I was flirting with them again.
I think my office manager kind of understood. She was my co-worker but she was also my friend. She also knew Jenni.
I belive she was the person that informed Jenni I was single. I started dating Jenni after that 6 month period of living alone
for the first time in my life.