Talk:Social isolation

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This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 22 January 2020 and 17 March 2020. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Deanatrimble.

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This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 20 April 2021 and 23 July 2021. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): HammerheadHunter555.

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Ridiculousness purged, fresh attempt made
Let's start anew, please. I've kept the citations, but deleted most of the article and tried to tighten up the rest of what little good stuff there was here, to possibly continue to use a few of these things in the future. Contribute please. Kikodawgzzz (talk) 19:53, 22 March 2012 (UTC)

-I feel that given the events over the last year(2020), there will be a great amount of material generated that can be used to rebuild this article.HammerheadHunter555 (talk) 02:17, 4 May 2021 (UTC)

imposed by others
not explained that social isolation can be imposed by others rather than voluntary.--Penbat (talk) 13:24, 27 May 2012 (UTC) I agree, can someone please find studies to this regard? Also when a person has an IQ 140 and over, they are usually bullied as children and pushed out of social interactions. In this way, high IQ is a social disability for children that can have lifetime consequence. 73.16.30.75 (talk) 18:48, 24 December 2017 (UTC)

Chronic Illness and Isolation
For whomever maintains this page, it would be nice please to make note of adults, though not elderly, who are subjected to forced isolation due to chronic medical conditions. There are many individuals whose lives are stolen by illness and who, due to no fault of their own, are forced to "live" in isolation. Pillartopost (talk) 17:44, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
 * :Hi Pillartopost! You seem to know a bit about this. If you have good, WP:reliable sources then please be bold and write a section about it! With friendly regards,  Lova Falk     talk   07:06, 2 March 2013 (UTC)

Hello, I was searching for mental illness and isolation and happened on this site regarding isolation. I think that there should be a statement regarding isolation of the mentally ill. I have an ill sister who suffers from severe swings in mood, social detachment and rage issues. During certain episodes she isolates in her house, doesn't answer the phone, locks the front gate, lays in bed watching TV. She develops unreal perceptions that the world and all it's people are no good and says that she enjoys her solitude. Being very close to her and knowing her psychological profile, I feel that her supposed enjoyment of being a recluse is simply a justification for some disturbing personal issues and severe social defecits. In other words physical health can indeed lead to or cause isolation but various forms of mental illness can as well, thanks, Scottart56 (talk) 00:58, 16 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Hi Scottart56! Thank you for your comment and I am sorry to read about your sister. Why don't you look for WP:reliable sources on mental illness and isolation (or chronic illness and isolation) and then be bold and write a section about it? Just try, and we'll help if your edits need tweaking. With friendly regards,  Lova Falk     talk   08:08, 25 June 2013 (UTC)

I did just that this morning. I added quite a bit from personal experience and also re-worded or omitted certain information. I hope I didn't go too far and I apologize for changing others contributions. I am new to this. scottart56 Scottart56 (talk) 13:55, 25 June 2013 (UTC)

CRIME and social isolation
Also, isolation due to crime/the effects of crime are major problems. 50% of women who were being stalked said they avoided leaving their homes (Mullen et al, Stalkers and their Victims). 1 in 5 women are stalked during their lifetime. Thus this is a very significant number of women who are isolated at some stage in their lives. Note that the epidemic of stalking is not taken seriously by law enforcement nor by healthcare workers. Victims of persistent and/or serious crimes are generally not supported by society which leads to an imposed isolation. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.46.58.68 (talk) 00:12, 8 April 2013 (UTC)

Proposed Merging of Article Isolation Techniques (Individual) into this article
This article on Social Isolation is about self-imposed, voluntary isolation by an individual from his or her society.

The article on Isolation Techniques (Individual) is about certain psychological abuse methodologies that psychiatrists have term "Isolating Techniques". This article focuses on these abuse tactics used by a perpetrator towards an unwilling victim and is not at all about self-imposed or voluntary isolation.

These two articles have no more in common than a shared word that is used as a noun in one article and as an adjective in the other.

To classify enforced isolation or ostrazation of an unwilling victim in the same category as self-imposed withdrawal from society is to imply that a victim of psychological abuse is somehow suffering the same mental disorder as a patient who has a 'social isolation' mental illness.

I therefore propose NOT merging these two articles together, as they simply do not address the same subject. Isobel Chaveh (talk) 22:52, 21 November 2016 (UTC)


 * Yes they address the same subject: a person is isolated from the society. This isolation may happen in several ways: self-imposed, accidental, and enforced (as abuse, torture, or punishment). And this article has to cover what is is common, as well as the differences, and a good deal of this article is actually applicable to all kinds of social isolation. When the article, after, some clear thinking, is separated into several sections, some of them, which become large, may be split into several sub-articles. Otherwise the subject is a mess in all parts, since clearly it was covered by non-experts. Staszek Lem (talk) 23:00, 21 November 2016 (UTC)


 * A merge just will no work for several reasons, one being that Isolation Techniques (Individual) covers several different types of isolation not just social isolation. Now up for AFD anyway: Articles for deletion/Isolation Techniques (Individual)--Penbat (talk) 20:31, 24 November 2016 (UTC)

Expanded social isolation in elderly
I have expanded the social isolation in the elderly section by connecting age-related hearing loss to social isolation, as well as including related health risks and mortality from social isolation. Deanatrimble (talk) 03:38, 17 March 2020 (UTC)

"It differs from loneliness"
In this case, why are so many studies on "lonely people" described? 73.161.233.103 (talk) 12:13, 26 July 2022 (UTC)

Against the social isolation the Internet has brought us 2001:4490:889:24:51A:6E30:B5EC:4FAD (talk) 17:07, 7 January 2024 (UTC)

This article is socially isolating
It pushes a repugnant group think position equating some objective factors with a subjective one-size-fits-all judgment of what is right for everybody and in particular my age group (over 65) which shows one main driver of isolation, oblivious projection. Ofc it has plenty of support because this is a common societal position: as WebMD puts it and this article implicitly agrees, everyone needs a social support network. This is just false, aside from the objective sense of being active in practical networks in society in general. You can have good, healthy, meaningful and even intimate interactions with people in general without joining groups of the like minded, sex/familial/religious delusion/capitalist workplace/bourgeois political formation associated, or plain ol ignorant clumps outta the masses of same. According to the perspective implicit here, if ur not a joiner of at least some such, and dont feel lonely as a result, ur sick. Just sayin. Lycurgus (talk) 12:25, 16 May 2024 (UTC)