Is it normal to feel more anxious when you're alone?

It is a perfectly normal feeling to be anxious when you are alone. Sometimes when you are with yourself without distraction, you can often focus on the negative aspects of your life and allow those negative thoughts to ruminate. But learning to combat those thoughts and to have a coping mechanism in place can really help to build your confidence and to be calmer when you are by yourself.

My anxiety really kicks in full force when I'm alone, so I would say so but it might depend on the person. Personally, it's a normal for me.

Yes. Being alone can be scary when you're in a head space you need comfort in. In other cases you can be "triggered" into feeling like you're always going to be alone.

Everybody's different. Some people may feel more anxious when alone but other people will feel more anxious when in the company of others. It's completely dependent on what your anxiety issues are based around.

Yeah, that’s completely normal to feel more anxious when you’re alone. If you are anxious and there is no one there to support you then it makes things a lot worse, plus just being alone in general can give some people anxiety.

Of course it is! Being alone is miles more emotionally in depth, you have to be more switched on, you're alone with your thoughts. Emotions can easily be heightened and overthought when alone.

When we're by ourselves, it can be easy to settle into a negative feedback loop, since the things we tell ourselves are amplified--they bounce off the walls of our mind without a chance to be intercepted or corrected by someone else. It's a little like a statistical sample--if you have a sample size of one, the results won't be very helpful, and the conclusions you make will be pretty skewed! If we're only talking to ourselves, we don't have the chance to rethink what we're saying based on what someone else has to say.

Anxiety is a feeling that we all experience at one time or another. It sounds as though on top of this you are feeling lonely. I understand how you are feeling, and I’m sorry that you feel as though your situation has made you more anxious. It’s natural to feel worried about different aspects of life. Sometimes talking through anxiety can help to ease it a little or understand what is going on. Could you help me understand what’s going on by describing the situation you are in a bit better? Why do you feel like you are alone?

Some people just feel better when they are with other people and some alone. Anxiety can work with many different factors so it is normal.

Yes as you are sometimes left to your own thoughts and devices which can lead to you overthinking and therefore creating more problems for yourself.