User blog comment:Miskos3/Fairy Tail Chapter 419: The Message of Fire, Review/@comment-4933386-20150207121341/@comment-7418318-20150207131253

She kinda lost Aquarius and Natsu and then the Guild itself, which was pretty much her very life - got disbanded.

Can you blame her for going into shock and then depressions. People do weird things when they have depressions.

There's also the matter of being afraid to get hurt. She formed all those bonds with Natsu, Aquarius and the rest of the guild and then those bonds were cut all of a sudden, which hurt a lot. If you have no bonds you won't have to go through the pain of them being severed again.

What I wonder about though is why none of the other FT members ever succeeded in tracking Lucy down and contact her from their end. Sure they all suffered from the disbanding, but few would have been hit nearly as badly as Lucy. With her being first a model for the Sorcerer and later a reporter for them living very close to their building I can't imagine anyone failing to find her if they put their mind to it.