Re:Social isolation and the brain in the pandemic era
by recuter on Sunday November 13, 2022 @12:04PM
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I fall into that percentage. I got stuck in a very severe lockdown whilst traveling. It was unpleasant to say the least.
However we should disentangle the stress of the situation, the uncertainty about the future, the arbitrary restrictions on previously taken for granted personal freedoms and the abrupt change to a lifetime of normalcy from the bummer of being alone.
Solitude and loneliness are not the same thing.
Some people actually thrived during lockdown. Others choose to isolate with no relation to it. All I am saying is that it is not written in your DNA that your mental health must deteriorate due to lack of socializing.
It is not so much unprecedented as it is unusual and involuntary.
However we should disentangle the stress of the situation, the uncertainty about the future, the arbitrary restrictions on previously taken for granted personal freedoms and the abrupt change to a lifetime of normalcy from the bummer of being alone.
Solitude and loneliness are not the same thing.
Some people actually thrived during lockdown. Others choose to isolate with no relation to it. All I am saying is that it is not written in your DNA that your mental health must deteriorate due to lack of socializing.
It is not so much unprecedented as it is unusual and involuntary.