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the practice of being alone, which the brain reads as a slow-motion physical attack
means the state of being separated or set apart from others, whether by distance, circumstance, or choice.
from From Latin insula, "island" — to isolate is literally to make someone into an island. The word arrived in English through Italian isolato and French isolé, and "isolation" took hold as the noun. So buried inside the word is the loneliest image: a single body cut off by water on every side.
- craves contact
- Loneliness raises cortisol like genuine physical danger
- deadly stat
- Chronic isolation rivals smoking for mortality risk
- radio gold
- Spacecraft need isolation chambers to hear faint signals
- sees faces
- Extreme isolation triggers vivid hallucinated company
- healing tool
- Quarantine derives from forty days of forced solitude
alcatraz federal penitentiary — island prison in san francisco bay that held al capone and robert stroud in solitary confinement cells
pitcairn island — remote south pacific territory with 50 inhabitants, nearest neighbor 3,300 miles away
antarctic research stations — amundsen-scott station at south pole, 9 months of complete darkness and zero resupply access per year