What Social Isolation Does To Your Brain – How To Undo The Damage
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I prefer my 8 cats, my dog and my garden.
The alternative is being around all you people 😂
It's too expensive to get out. Gas and food are quite expensive, especially living on a SS check.
Awesome Insight 🎉❤😊
If you lost your job and kind of give up and isolate you will over time lose your ability to properly function in society and that will in turn affect your hirability. And banks don't wait for you to get another job. They will kick you out of their house on Christmas eve and won't bat a eye.
Some people welcome being by themselves. Imperfectly fine being by myself.
Im good on my own thanks.
Worked as a senior manager in a large corporation. For decades I had to be a good listener, pretend to care about other people's BS and solve the problems they created. Thankfully in retirement I no longer have to do that. I am neither lonely nor isolated. I am at peace because I can choose to associate with the few people who do not drain me emotionally or look at me as their personal ATM.
How is online learning a solution when it contributes to social isolation?
She just taking about her medulla oblongata. No Colonel Sanderson your wrong.
Great video thanks✌🏻🙌🧘♂️
You can rescue an animal. Problem solved. 🙂
Psychology is pseudoscience. Stop talking.
Damage?
""Your brain has the ability to rewire itself, and strengthen loose connections."" never heard it explained so perfectly. feeling disconnected wasn't a personality trait. it was my brain losing structure in real time. the loop gets reinforced every time the temporary relief works, so avoiding people felt fine until it wasn't. i picked up a book once and the actual title was "for those of you who feel invisible" and just seeing those words printed on the cover stopped me cold before i even opened it, like someone had named something i had been carrying around without ever knowing it had a name. that was the first time i had actual language for what was happening.
I worked in retail all my work life. I do not go out in public, I order from Amazon, big life saver; I love being with my pets and reading, and watching history, and ID. OUTSIDE WORLD, WEARS ME DOWN, I GUESS WHEN YOU GET OLDER, YOU CAN’T TAKE THE STRESS.
I been alone in my house since dad died two Xmas ago only interaction are family messages to pick on me
I don't care about the damage, people are sh!t.
8 years…
I've lived mostly alone for years. It rips about your mind, im now an avoidant person who can't handle basic emotions. But anytime i try to connect to others, i end up hurt, so which is really worse?
being alone is freedom. free from the social culture of the political morons who believe politics is their religion. the social media creating cookie cutter narcissist that can't think for themselves.
Its weird…
I choose isolation because people drain my energy…
Some of us just want to be left alone…
People in the modern world don't even know what social skills are…
Probably all the clout on social media…
Simmering in my personal problems helps me trust myself…
Not lonely
I don't know about you guys but the pandemic felt normal to me
my brain is normal i am normal if i had a dog even he would b normal 😵💫😵💫😵💫
People can really affect your mental health….give you anxiety, worry, hurt, anger etc!! I am happy with my new little Cat …
As if id want to be around you
As you can see, a lot of people in the comments prefer solitude to the BS people give em
Stress from school 😢😔