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It really wasn't until after I retired in 2005 and moved
to Charleston, South Carolina, to be with my family
that the symptoms began to be bothersome
and disrupt my life, disrupt my family's life.
I noticed that I was isolating a bit.
I'm typically a gregarious person, had a very active
social life, love to take classes, whether it's art, or writing,
or whatever, and I was doing none of that.
I did have a position at that point in a university,
and I would go to class when I was required to,
I would go to meetings when I was required to,
and other than that I didn't go to my office at all.
And I justified that and explained it to myself
by simply saying, "I've earned this, I've worked a long time,
and they don't really need me there unless there's a meeting,"
and so I would sort of brush it off.