How to disappear from normal society?
I have had almost every type of trauma and tragedy happen to me at least once, sometimes more, in the past two years, culminating in losing my husband and home at the age of 32. People keep trying to get me to fix my life or move onto the next thing or heal or whatever but I am realizing I can't do that. I don't think I'm going to be part of normal society anymore--I don't have a job or family or a career or permanent home--or at least I don't have the same personality, goals, likes/dislikes, interests, beliefs, whatever that I had before all this. But this reality seems to annoy people and make them anxious. I feel like they want me to either go back to some version of my own self, reintegrate into society in some way, or disappear. I can't do the first two things. Also, being around reminders of my old life is too painful.
Is there any place I can go to live away from society with other people who don't expect normalcy and will leave me alone?
Posted May 12, 2026, 6:09 AM UTC