What I found interesting about this, was how little I feel loneliness, and yet, this video described so many of my behaviors.

I tend to be an introvert, and since September, I've been living alone for the first time, and I've been loving having my space. To me, it feels like much of my life is spent in my own little garden. I have a few new work friends, and a few friends from before. Regardless, everything about this defensive behavior, and assuming the worst of others, have been really ringing true.

For me it's less feeling like I don't belong, and more of just intense shame and worry over the smallest past actions. I tend to take a lot of mildly negative reactions very seriously, and over the past few months, most of my thoughts are clouded by this. Even just because I had a beer or two last night, and said very minorly embarrassing things.

It seems that to a degree, these symptoms can be caused by less social interaction, as opposed to the feeling of loneliness.