People are generally social creatures. There are very few people who can survive no social interaction at all. Even the act of being around other people provides different benefits from stimulating chemical production in the brain. A person may isolate themselves from friends, family, and social networks as either an active or subconscious choice. They may convince themselves that they do not deserve to have the friends and family that they do and will act on making it so. This may look like the person dropping contact and ghosting or picking fights and engaging in arguments to cause the other person to want to break contact.

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