Isolation and Insanity

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Does acute isolation lead to insanity?
I was reading about criminal psychology and realised that many of them were loners, isolated and ended up becoming frustrated and criminal.

I am also forced to be isolated and people dont want to hang around me because of my selective muteness and shyness.
Will i eventually end up insane???

Absolutely no connection between criminality and loneliness.

@Namaste - you have a husband and a child (nearly five by now?) so I don't think loneliness applies here.

I was thinking at the same thing since I don't talk with anybody and all the day I'm staying at home. The only one with who I am talking is my mother and she always tell me to go out because it is not healthy. But I'm like that for 5 years (since i've left high school) and I feel fine. (even if in this time I have had some short relations)
Don't know why people say you could go insane from too much isolation. Could it be true?

PS. I remeber about a documentary called "feral children". It seems that education makes us humans so I wonder if socializing maybe keeps us humans?
I'm afraid it could be so but I hope not because I really enjoy loneliness.

I enjoy being lonely, too, but I try to socialize with cashiers everyday. I also like talking to people online.

It's our species membership that makes us human. Period.

Without education our behaviour wouldn't be very different than that of animals. Period (lol, such arrogance)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STn3bpTTU6c

I wouldn't be too sure about that.

Like the one guy who I never got along with as kids told me that one day when I didn't expect it, he would walk up behind me and blow my brains out. I worried about that for years because I knew that he really met it, but ever since he died of a heart attack, I haven't worried about it at all.

Of course, from another point of view, he may have been human. It might be the people who are compassionate and kind to others who are the ones who aren't so human.

I think some people are lonely & isolated because they are insane or have serious mental issues instead of going insane because of loneliness. However mental issues can be made worse sometimes due to feeling lonely. I'm doing alot better emotionally sense I have a perfect girlfriend to talk to who understands me & is there for me. Being outgoing & dealing with the NT world alot can cause me to have emotional problems thou. Pushing yourself to be outgoing because others tell you that you'll go insane from loneliness can be really bad for you. I think it's better to be alone than around people who don't understand you at best or try to put you down or change you or just make you feel unaccepted.

but i feel strange after being isolated for a longer period of time....i feel i cant understand anything happening around me.
But what you describe is exactly what i had in mind and was trying to say.

Loneliness is not when you dont have people around you.
Loneliness is when you dont have people around you who can understand you, communicate with you
Me and my husband arent that much on same wavelength....honestly i enjoyed speaking with my female friend more who has left this area now and we are not in touch now.
About kid well least said better.

http://crime.about.com/od/female_offend ... -Beets.htm

This could be case of frustration, mental illness whatever or loneliness

I think some simply are not 'made' to enjoy loneliness. Some people are naturally loners so they don't feel 'frightened' when they stay alone for large periods of time. I don't know whether this would lead to insanity but if you don't feel fine, definitely can't be a good thing for your health.

You could fall into depression, frustration, low self-esteem, anxiety (because of rejection). Yeah, might lead to lots of problems. Insanity, very improbable, but from which I know you're at higher risk of developing certain mental disorders if there is a history of insanity in your family.

There is history of insanity in my family.
Both my parents have mental health issues.

Rejection causes more problems then loneliness
I dont feel bored or alone when lonely
Infact i feel extremely bad, rejected and depressed when
in a crowded place i am rejected and isolated
and people avoid me
For eg. wedding, social do's or office.

You are right rejection is far worse then loneliness....
So i avoid socialisation and office gatherings.
Just to keep my sanity.

Last edited by namaste on 02 Oct 2012, 12:45 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Lately I'm wondering if my inability to read Non-verbal language is a result of long periods of forced isolation as a child.

yes i cant read non verbal clues too infact i cant read anything neither understand any social behaviour...
its like being brought up as a feral child and ending up as a outcast.

Isolation does sometimes leads to insanity.
Prisoner in isolation cell for prolonged period of time, for example.
But that is not your case.

It is all up to you, how you will behave.