You start to lose track of the events that have shaped who you are, which is a terribly threatening feeling that eats away at your sense of self. A lot of people who find themselves in this position tend to retreat, unknowingly mirroring their dendrites. They don’t venture out and make new connections for fear that they won’t know how to react, and they withdraw from the world, either out of embarrassment or simply because they feel uncomfortable outside the familiarity of home. Either way, the result is that they get cut off from meaningful relationships, which are an important form of
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