Comments on: Fear of Being Alone Phobia – Monophobia https://www.globalfears.com/fear-of-being-alone-phobia-monophobia/ The Ultimate List of Phobias and Fears Fri, 06 Mar 2026 14:07:54 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: jenn https://www.globalfears.com/fear-of-being-alone-phobia-monophobia/#comments/142110 http://www.globalfears.com/?p=115#comment-142110 I kinda don’t know if I have this phobia because I tend to be fine if I’m in a space that I know I’ll be safe, such as my house, school, and any other places I’ve been where I know all the people that are there. But I tend to get small panic attacks when I (mostly all the time) go out and eat or do anything. The only thing that can calm me down is music, so honestly, I don’t know if I really have a fear or if I’m just being stupid.

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By: Vianna Beltran https://www.globalfears.com/fear-of-being-alone-phobia-monophobia/#comments/94910 http://www.globalfears.com/?p=115#comment-94910 I ™ve recently started suffering from this type of anxiety. Anyone who relates can contact me and maybe we can help each other out.

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By: Halle https://www.globalfears.com/fear-of-being-alone-phobia-monophobia/#comments/94115 http://www.globalfears.com/?p=115#comment-94115 In reply to Dezarae Aguilera.

I can relate although I’m younger. One day in class my friend left me alone to talk to someone else and I started crying. I had to wipe my face because people laughed. But I just felt that I didn’t matter. I also can’t handle when I’m home alone and I hear random noises. Same with the sleeping. I feel like things are in my room in the dark. So I see things, like a person.

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By: Ashley https://www.globalfears.com/fear-of-being-alone-phobia-monophobia/#comments/90002 http://www.globalfears.com/?p=115#comment-90002 I’ve been on and off the decision scale as to whether or not I may suffer from anxiety or if I ™m just a straight up scaredy-cat, but over the last few years, I have developed an immense fear of being alone inside of a large room by myself. I can deal with smaller rooms, small crowds (large crowds I tend to get a little antsy) and being outside on my own, but the second I get placed in a large room with just myself and my thoughts, I immediately become uneasy and start having recurring images in my head of a dream I had for months. I was super young (I ™m 22 now) when this dream happened so how i still remember it, I have no clue. But one part featured a giant white room, no windows, no color, just white, and in the center was a drain. A small pool of water surrounded me that flowed steadily towards the drain. But gradually the waters speed had increased and I remember looking back at the drain and it had doubled in size. Eventually the drain got so big that the grates just sucked me in. I wasn ™t able to move out of the way either, it ™s like I was paralyzed. But I ended up in a weird open lake type of place next, and my mother was at the end of these 3, long isle-like islands. I kept calling out to her and she wouldn ™t answer me. She was fishing, I think. But she ended up getting into a car and driving away without me, leaving me by myself. I tried chasing after her but I slipped and fell head first into the water and all I saw was massive head rising up to me and eating me. It was the strangest dream I had ever had but yet I still remember it so vividly. When I ™m in a place like a large room, I start thinking about that dream and start to get really flustered. Any thoughts?

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By: bjorn johnson https://www.globalfears.com/fear-of-being-alone-phobia-monophobia/#comments/87241 http://www.globalfears.com/?p=115#comment-87241 In reply to Jannah Vincent.

same here

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By: Dezarae Aguilera https://www.globalfears.com/fear-of-being-alone-phobia-monophobia/#comments/86695 http://www.globalfears.com/?p=115#comment-86695 In reply to Laura.

I understand completely, I can relate to a lot of these thoughts and feelings. I am 24 years old and for a very long time now I knew something was wrong with me. I knew I was different from others. I think differently and I feel things on a level I don ™t think anyone can understand. My mind is constantly going, especially when I ™m left alone. I become very panicked and nervous, I start listening hard to every little sound and loud noises make me jump. I hate the quietness, I cannot stand being alone and in the quiet. I will go into a full on panic attack and often I will beg my boyfriend to come with me to the bathroom or shower, if he doesn ™t I ™ll leave the door open or cracked unless I have music, but sometimes it doesn ™t help. My boyfriend can ™t even walk outside without me asking and wondering if he is going to leave. Is he gonna sneak off and not tell me? I start to panic and my heart races, my palms get sweaty, I start doubting myself asking myself things like are you being boring? Did you forget to do something for him? Am I being too clingy? If I am hanging around even just friends and one friend gets up to go to the bathroom I immediately ask where they are going. I guess you can say paranoid. I wake up in the morning and the first thing that runs through my mind is I wonder when he ™s planning on leaving me. And then I start going out of my way to try and make sure he is comfortable and stays around as long as possible. I can ™t sleep alone. If he falls asleep first I have the hardest time going to sleep too. If he leaves while I ™m asleep I wake up scared and start yelling for him looking everywhere until the tears come falling down and I ™ll call and call until he answers to tell me where he ™s at. This is not even half of what I experience. If I am alone, it ™s rare, I ™ll eat or shower, clean anything like that unless I ™m stoned or something. Things, thoughts and feelings have been fueled by addiction and I almost never feel good about myself, if I do it ™s based off how my boyfriend or someone else is treating me. For example if my boyfriend is having a bad day and needs space like a normal person would I start freaking out inside my head like is he gonna break up with me, what did I do wrong, am I not pretty enough, do I not interest him? I ™m gonna be alone forever I can ™t ever keep around anyone because often it ™s been said I ™m too much or just too much to handle. I ™m obsessive and jealous, insecure, jumpy and clingy and idk how to turn all this off. My mind never rests, I think way too much about everything, always analyzing and dissecting. I don ™t trust anyone. Really I ™m always looking for lies or deceit. I pay attention to tiny details most don ™t, like body language, peoples reactions and faces, tone of voice, what they act like around certain ppl or alone. I remember things that hurt me, some random girl could say something random about me like I ™m a heifer and that stays in my head for weeks. I ™ll always throw out there sometimes for no reason "I ™m such a heifer . I change 3-4 times a day always worried what others think. It ™s exhausting. I can ™t hang out with very many people because I make things weird. I talk too much, I ™m too open or I ™m too quiet, really awkward with a wall up. I ™ve tried to be myself but I haven ™t met one person who can truly deal and understand me the way I think and feel. I ™m sensitive and after so long of being hurt or made fun of for the way I am I ™ve begun to put a wall up and wear a mask for different people. I become the person they are expecting or what I assume they find appropriate. I ™ve lost myself who I really am trying to fit in so I ™m not so lonely but really I ™m always lonely. I can ™t speak my mind ever because people think I ™m crazy or tripping or just trying to get attention or cause drama. But really I just need help sorting through my thoughts and feelings. I have gotten so bad I can barely differentiate from reality and what tricks my mind has kicking up. I can ™t ever tell when someone is being real or sarcastic. Anything anyone says I assume is a lie or the complete opposite. I believe whole heartedly both are huge issues because I tend to believe the lies and not believe the truth. In my mind everyone is playing games in it for their own gain. I feel like I have nobody who is on my side. I have no friends, I ™ve mostly lost my family and it ™s destroying my relationship. I need help. This is only half of what I can explain.

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By: Help https://www.globalfears.com/fear-of-being-alone-phobia-monophobia/#comments/84090 http://www.globalfears.com/?p=115#comment-84090 In reply to Money.

Symptoms are exactly what I feel, mostly when sleeping alone. I just have this intense feeling so I can’t even sleep facing away from the door because I am too scared that someone or thing will get me in the night, even when I am just home alone I fear being like sniped from a distance or the house being broken into.

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By: Meg https://www.globalfears.com/fear-of-being-alone-phobia-monophobia/#comments/81947 http://www.globalfears.com/?p=115#comment-81947 In reply to Braydon.

I feel the exact same way.

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By: Arryanna https://www.globalfears.com/fear-of-being-alone-phobia-monophobia/#comments/81263 http://www.globalfears.com/?p=115#comment-81263 In reply to rebekah.

I like that dress

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By: Gavin https://www.globalfears.com/fear-of-being-alone-phobia-monophobia/#comments/75129 http://www.globalfears.com/?p=115#comment-75129 In reply to Braydon.

I am the exact same. I don ™t tell anyone cuz I think they ™ll think it ™s silly, but I can ™t stand to be alone. I don ™t even like being on the same floor as others just in a different room. I also hate the dark. I don ™t know if fear of the dark and fear of being alone go together for anyone else, but that ™s how it is with me

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