Being cut off from other humans changes your brain. Here's the science on how. 

Why no end in sight? Also, one huge tip that helps isolation is tracking things. You can track rain fall amounts, your calories per day, the stars, whatever you want. Giving your brain something to focus on and being disciplined is easy and improves your brain like nothing else. Create a chart and track things. Looking over it and seeing differences over time helps you focus and allows you to see you are doing stuff. Easiest is calories as you can use food tracker apps and it displays all the data with graphs etc over time.

Been there. Very similar to how you describe. Have you tried meditating? I needed to get out of my head - Constant stream of inner monologue. Wheels spinning. We can't think our way out of everything. You should probably try to get out more. If you don't want to be around lots of people, go green spaces, scenic cycle paths with trees, fields. Get a dog? Or other pets. Do you work? Get any fast food job. Have to start somewhere. I quit gaming years back after doing it too much because I felt bad about it. I'd probably go back to it soon now that I've sorted myself out. Join an online guild and use the speaking server, even if you just listen at first. Ventrillo/teams peak, whatever people use these days. Similar to what I mentioned with meditation, I would look into mindfulness. I watch a guy called Owen Cook. He talks about 'stifledness' being stifled. It's when you go withdrawn and reticent, defensive, uptight and don't act out. Like you (might be all or some of these things) stop singing, might stop laughing, making phrases/movie quotes/daft noises, hold posture stiff/wooden, don't project voice or might talk monotone. You need to get out of your head and into your body mate. Play, whatever it is, gaming, pool, kickboxing, dance. Don't live in hell mate. I had all of that. I'm getting better, have came a long way. Might want to look into Trauma. Guessing people have gave you sht, painful social interactions. Anger goes inwards. I was flat for years mate. Thought I was controlling emotions, being all stoic. It's inwards anger as defence mechanism. I was using colloquial 'cope'. You can make a better life mate. I had insomnia 10 years, didn't go out. Identified with social anxiety. Just stopped in the house most the time so many years, very bitter. I chased happiness, tried to force things too for a long time when I came out of it, material things. Aim to be CALM. Relaxed, have less demented, demonic thoughts haunting you. The glimpses of happiness start to happen later. Man I sincerely wish you the very best. God bless.

I know the *exact* groan you're talking about. I had it too after being isolated for a long time. Life became *so* much better when I started getting around people again more consistently (even though I really didn't want to at the time). Isolation DOES change your mind. Physically. It reduces certain parts of the brain. They did a study on people by isolating them in Antartica to prove it. Look into Tachykinin. Andrew Huberman has talked about it before. It's like your brain punishes you for being socially isolated by making you feel awful. I'd be happy to send you links if you want them.

If you get bored by yourself it just means you're in bad company

​@@HerrEngelsman it was really heartwarming to read, i am in similar situation 21yr old, ever since finished college cut off all ties with friends, i feel lonely most of the time but people make me scared. I have withdrawn myself from society,barely goes out in a week or sometimes months and spends most of the time in my room, gets very distracted easily, unmotivated often times and lacks discipline being painfully aware of all these makes it hell for me to go through my day,tbh im really ashamed of the way i have turned out

Same

Same!

I think everyone is being too hard on Sylvester. He had a long day chasing tweety bird.

null akjg I don’t understand what you’re teying to say :(

Aye, but it is really cool though isn't it /s

I spent just under a year isolated, primarily due to medical reasons, and feel like I missed something very important in my emotional development. I was 11-12 years old. I can't imagine how foreign everything must feel for you. I'm glad you are persevering.

it's like the narrator is wearing a bracelet and his tongue seems have some problems like oversize.

On top of that, your experience of consciousness literally isn’t even specific to your brain. Emotions are inflammatory reactions happening all over the body. Vagus nerve often more important than brain

@@detectivewiggles I disagree, there is nothing more important than the brain. Everything you know, everything you are is inside that 2 kg mass.

@@Kenjiro5775 You are dead wrong lmfao. Research Lawrence Afrin mast cell disease dysautonomia If medicine understood this stuff then mental illness literally would be gone. It still exists because doctors are arrogant clowns fed ridiculous lies by evil men.

@@Kenjiro5775 Show me a functioning brain existing apart from the rest of the body. I'll wait. Your entire personality is your second secret immune system medicine literally hides because it makes them look dumb

@@Kenjiro5775 You do understand the bulk of your neurotransmitters are manufactured in your digestive organs, right, and that millions of nerve impulses never even REACH the brain because the vagus nerve is already its own brain, right? Leading trauma experts have been talking about the vagus nerve for decades. It is only able bodied, privileged people like you who can afford to believe pathetic pop science. Medicine only ever almost killed me and I saved myself. This is just a dumb hobby to make you feel smart.

If I had access to internet and electronics I could do solitary for years see mbti

Since I was a child I always though Antarctica as an idea job I was a bullied child at school and my mother was a narccistist and my dad an alcoholic I learned to be alone to have peace and I was married twice had kids and learned so called normal people can hurt you even more I find isolation peaceful survivable and leads to contentedness

The chaos of others minds is pathological

Seriously, can they not find a single person who doesnt have a lisp? Presentation matters even in science. Ill redub this video in a clear general american accent for 200 dollars. This is a serious offer. I assure you its worth every penny as I wont slur my words like drunk dude with a swollen tongue.

Idk, I don’t mind it. 🤷🏻‍♂️

I’ll do it in a weird Italian accent for 1$

Lol terrible, terrible pick for somebody to narrate. The lisp, the smacking of his tongue against his cheeks...ugh gives me shudders. Terrible.

I enjoyed the voice whether you did or not. I don't need forceful talk. It felt more personal as an isolationist. Very asmr

I watched this by myself and I turned the volume up and enjoyed this video. if you want someone to drink energy drinks and yell at you keep looking it’s out there

I wonder if people who are introverted adapt better vs. extroverts who need socialization.

My shrink used to tell me that in prison isolation is used on people that can't handle it, not on people who are good at it, because I prefer to be alone... I wrote him a letter after I was arrested and told him that after four days of being tortured and isolated, I went off on the guards for dehumanizing people which was against the law, after I watched the jail shrink tell some kid "good I'm glad you decided to cooperate with us after two weeks, we'll move you into a cell block and you can comb your hair, brush your teeth and take a shower and start felling like a real person again"... I saw red and blew up and was moved onto a cell block faster than the kid was... Jail is a bit different than isolating oneself outside of incarceration since the buildings produce a type of echo that's hard to explain... And most jails block out any and all windows so you can't see out and when you go outside you see no sky or trees or grass, the combination really throws off your equilibrium... I was happy to be around people in jail which shocked me, even though, the other individuals were not people I preferred to hang around. Outside of incarceration, I isolate myself often. I haven't left my house, willingly, in over 6 years, quarantining long before it was cool... I see my spouse whom, most of the time I'd prefer them to be and stay gone, and my parents stop by to drop things off once a week... My spouse gets upset with me often and tells me I have no idea how to interact with people and I tell them I do, I'm good at it, I just prefer not to and My spouse u Is the only one I seem to not be able to speak to properly so it sounds like they're the problem but then they tell me go name who I converse with since I don't leave and they tell me I have no friends... To which I reply that I don't desire friends..... When I isolate for long periods of time with no other human interaction, when I finally see another person or will talk their ear off... It's very weird...

Quality time ?

It is only bad for extroverts😉

Are you alone all-day every-day?

Yes

Except sundays if I can get to chirch

@@maryanncrody4867 interesting. I find it madness inducing lol

He’s woke

*put

Would be useful if they wouldn't mumble whisper mumble through entire video

YES MY GOODNESS!! they're freakin scientific American, they couldn't find a better narrator for the love of god!

It's up to the individual to keep some mental enrichment going during isolation, which Thoreau probably practiced to his benefit..

Then there was Calvin Rutstrum... About his isolation experiences, he would likely have said: "Isolated!? Hardly! I'm surrounded by the busy minds I find in all the books that line the wall of my cabin."

Interestingly, one of Rutstrum's most popular titles: "Paradise Below Zero"..

Lmfao bootlicker. The answer to isolation isn’t "make people work til they die." We could like....just interact with them as HUMANS not just economic robots. No wonder the world is so insane when people like you think the only answer to isolation is FORCED LABOR OF THE ELDERLY. Licking boots is bad for your health bud

Got a chub, didn't you?😂

@@squirrelcovers6340 😂 and I had a sudden urge to roll myself in glitter

The current political climate politicized science; science has not changed but those who disagree with it unfortunately have.

There wasn't one thing about politics in this video.

There wasn't one thing about politics in this video.

Antarctica and space station. Absolutely zero politics here, stop projecting what you want to see into unrelated topics

I think you've been socially isolated too long. Stay away from sharp objects!