Feeling alone in a room full of people really sucks. There is just no poetic way of summing up the feeling of loneliness that an anxiety disorder can produce in a person. I have literally been in a room with hundreds of people and have felt absolutely no connection to either them or the fun they seem to be having. Is this really surprising though? As an anxious "what ifer" many of our thoughts are aimed inward and can be negative and also repeat incessantly. When we get stuck in the quagmire that is anxious brooding all we can do is think