I’m trying to look honestly at what silence threatens in me but am crashing into my therapist’s recommendation that I not isolate myself in order to avoid depression. What am I missing?

A: It sounds like you’re running into a semantic and structural conflict that probably appears/feels psychological.

Your therapist is speaking about the behavioral isolation of withdrawing from human contact in a way that reinforces things like depressive loops, rumination, and nervous-system contraction. Your inquiry is pointing toward internal silence …