Forced social isolation causes neural craving similar to hunger

Re:Forced social isolation causes neural craving similar to ... by colechristensen on Monday June 08, 2020 @06:54PM (#23461684)

I feel you, me too. I also had a relationship fall apart late last year and did quite a lot of my own social isolating at the time combined with my natural inclination to hibernate around the winter solstice because of lack of light.

My closest friends also moved away in part motivated by the situation.

I really don't remember the last time I interacted with another human who wasn't selling me food or through a computer or phone (which helps of course but is no substitute).

There are probably a lot of us out there. If it weren't for a couple of cat monsters I probably would have lost all of my marbles by now.

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Re:Forced social isolation causes neural craving similar to ... by fdsgnr0g90n0fw on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @12:52AM (#23463763)

>There are probably a lot of us out there. If it weren't for a couple of cat monsters I probably would have lost all of my marbles by now.

I think you might be underestimating yourself as a human being. I spend about 8 months with little human contact. I spoke twice with my parents for about 10 minutes each, once for 2 minutes to ask some questions, and maybe 10 seconds each time to the cashier when buying food (however it never deviated from this script; "Would you like bags?" "Yes." "How are you paying?" "Cash." "Have a nice day."). That was it. Nothing else.

I won't say that it was an easy or enjoyable thing to do, but I think given enough time and focus, almost anyone can probably acclimate to a complete lack of human contact without loosing all their marbles.

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