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Solitary Confinement is Ruining Lives Every Day
Humans are social creatures. Isolation damages our minds
There are few things in life that are more painful than being cut off from human contact.
We’ve all felt loneliness at some point. We’ve all felt what it’s like to be isolated and left alone.
Most of us will have experienced it for the first time as kids, when our friends decided we weren’t cool enough to hang out with them anymore. Schoolyard politics were a hellish quagmire, especially for those of us who were a little socially awkward.
For most of us, isolation will keep happening from time to time even as we grow into adults.
We feel it when we’re excluded from the office lunch party or ghosted by a friend or a dating partner. Maybe we go through it when something traumatic happens, and we look around and realize that people are pulling away because they can’t relate to what we’ve gone through.
No matter the reason, it always hurts.
We’ve all felt that excruciating burn of being cut off from our social group. Having the metaphorical door slammed shut in our faces, being pushed out of the inner circle and left to deal with…
