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isolation is shown in this picture because it shows a lonely boy walking down a path. isolation is bad cause i think that isolation is where deep and dark bad thoughts come from and i personally been down there it isn't fun its more of depressing. i think isolation can be prevented by just simple thing like everyone being nice and be equal to everyone. but on the other side isolation can be good because it will give you alone time and be able to think clearly. so i think isolation can be good but also bad.
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Just because someone is alone doesn’t mean that they’re suffering. In fact, they may just be a “Lone Wolf” and is willing to go alone to strengthen their work ethic and self dependence. Which is great to have for the future, cause no one wants to hire a person who is too dependent on others. My experiences though life turned me into this “Lone Wolf”-like behavior. An example to prove this would be that I tend to work, think, and improve by myself. Being alone grants you a lot of time to think more on topics and to find points to both sides of an argument. Being alone is not like the world stereotype of it being depressing, hard, unbearable, losing mentality. In fact, it helps us think, to think on past experiences, current problems, and future situations. So next time you see someone working alone or you find yourself alone and somewhat depressed, remember these words...

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Isolation On A Healthy Standpoint - by LSW.

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Isolation On A Healthy Standpoint - by LSW.

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This photo+quote by Oscar Wilde is a great example of isolation or being purposely alone is not a fully bad habit. For many people, they prefer communities and may believe that isolation is a bad road to go down, but for others it is a gateway into finding thoughts, answers, peace, and yourself. In today’s world, people love placing labels on anything and everything, this includes people. We’ve been labeling people as Lower Class, Slave, Peasant, Rebel, and many more for centuries! So sitting back, reflecting, and finding your actual self and not what society labels you as is quite healthy in my book.

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Aaleya Englsih

This represents a sense of isolation. This shows you what amounts of fame can do to you. You dont have to be alone to experience isolation. Lindsay Lohan is the prime example , she shows that not only famous people can feel isolated.

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This photo shows how isolation can take an innocent child to a crackhead. When a person is in the spotlight it isolates them because they cant leave their house without a swarm of people surrounding them. As a celebrity you cant ignore your fans because then you will be deemed a rude person but if your nice you cant get things done. When put in the spotlight some people turn to drugs as a way of letting go the stress and the pressure. This photo shows how children stars the most prone to be taken down the dark path of stardom. Jazmin Seymour

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How Isolation Can Affect My Life - Logan V

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How Isolation Can Affect My Life - Logan V

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Isolation is a portion of my life everyday. I am a person who is re-energized from being alone, and although i love interaction with others, when it's about 2,000 kids passing by me every day, it becomes stressful. Loneliness in a child's life can affect them neurologically, and can even shorten their life span. Studies with primates have shown that from being isolated for multiple weeks, the primates lost communicative brain cells that help the monkeys with day to day functions. This affects a young persons life, and can alter their life. This can be in the form of harder communication in business, shorter life span, and unhealthy relationships.

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Social behaviour

Social behaviour includes how an individual's thoughts, feelings and behaviour influences, and is influenced by, other people. Creating social relationships is central to human well-being, and not just due to the pure joy of being with friends, or when learning social norms. It is argued that experiencing social behaviour, and engaging in social interaction, is vital during childhood development. However, many children, for various reasons, are not able to participate in, or experience, the social behaviour that is crucial for their well-being, mental health, and development.

The absence of social relationships and behaviours have been shown to affect child development in various ways. For example, previous research has revealed that socially isolated children tend to have lower subsequent educational attainment, be part of a less advantaged social class in adulthood, and are more likely to be psychologically distressed in adulthood (Lacey, Kumari & Bartley, 2014). This text will focus on how long-term social isolation is closely related to loneliness and physiological illness, and how it affects a healthy development of the brain.

Human stress response

If a person is not able to experience the necessary level of social contact and behaviour, they can experience social isolation. Social relationships are critical to the maintenance of health, and a lack of them often correlates with feelings of loneliness (Doane & Adam, 2010). Loneliness, in turn, has been linked to higher levels of stress.

The primary function of the human stress response is to protect the body from the environment. When a person is socially isolated, as it is a basic human need, the body will perceive the situation as a threat. During the time of the active stress response, the brain will release multiple stress hormones to protect the body from danger. The release of these hormones is needed for the person to react towards the current stress factor, and resist the possible harm. However, the body cannot release these stress hormones and protect the body from stressful situations for unlimited time. Having an active stress response over an extended period has been proven to increase the risk of developing cardiovascular disease, elevated blood pressure, infectious illness, cognitive deterioration, and mortality. These are physiological consequences of being prone to stress over time, and they are typically experienced in adulthood. High levels of stress are therefore regarded as a threat to a socially isolated child's health, not only in their early years of life but also in adulthood.

Brain development

As argued, socially isolated children are at increased risk of health problems in adulthood. Furthermore, studies on social isolation have demonstrated that a lack of social relationships negatively impacts the development of the brain's structure. In extreme cases of social isolation, studies of young mice and monkeys have shown how the brain is strongly affected by a lack of social behaviour and relationships (Makinodan, Rosen, Ito & Corfas, 2012).

Photo: Elizaveta Korabelnikova

Early on in their development, the mice and monkeys were socially isolated for several weeks to further investigate the relationship between social isolation and physiological and cognitive functioning. The researchers found deficits in the communication chains in a type of cell called oligodendrocytes. In other words, these cells had impaired neuron-to-neuron (cell-to-cell) communication in the prefrontal cortex. The function of these cells is dependent on social interaction to develop the prefrontal cortex. The prefrontal cortex is a part of the brain which is associated with a variety of cognitive functions, such as planning, higher-level thought, and social interaction. The researchers argue that if the development of these cells and areas of the brain are disrupted, children can also possibly develop deficits in these areas of the brain.

Social support

The studies described in this text demonstrate the importance of social interaction, and how social isolation damages not only the physiological functions of the body but also the development of the nervous system's support cells, which in turn affects the development of cognitive functioning. However, there are reasons to believe that the human need for social interaction is not only the risk factor but is also the "lifesaving factor." As previously mentioned, when the human stress response is activated, multiple stress hormones are activated. One of the hormones that are released has the function to force us into social contact. As the need for social connection is important to everyone, in a vulnerable situation, this contact is so important that our body forces us to socialise.

Previous research has investigated how social support affects people who are prone to stress. By receiving social assistance, studies show that children can cope more easily with high levels of stress. Research has also shown that social support is strongly associated with feelings of mastery and the ability to deal with stressful situations, as well as strongly associated with increased quality of life (Martin, Carlson & Buskist, 2009). Thus, by increasing the amount of social interaction, support, and contact they receive, children who experience social isolation avoid the potential harm of physiological illness, cognitive impairment, and feelings of loneliness.

Summary

This text has described how social behaviour can be a risk factor for health if there is lack of it, but also how it can be a lifesaver to those struggling with social isolation. This demonstrates the fundamental need of human beings for social support, care, relationships, and behaviour.

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How does social isolation affect a child's mental health and development?

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Social behaviour includes how an individual's thoughts, feelings and behaviour influences, and is influenced by, other people. Creating social relationships is central to human well-being, and not just due to the pure joy of being with friends, or when learning social norms. It is argued that experiencing social behaviour, and engaging in social interaction, is vital during childhood development.

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Thomas

Tommy Silverstein is proof that some people are better to be isolated, because of how he has killed so many people. He was first charged with armed robbery then in prison he murdered two of his inmates. This shows that some people should be isolated for other people’s safty.
But i think that in the end after so long in isolation you will need to come out and have some human interaction so u don’t go insane. I think this also proves that to much isolation is bad because when he first got out of his isolation chamber he had ended up killing a guard.

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Creighton G
i think it is better to be isolated. the reason why i think its better to be isolated is because everyone annoys me at one point or another. i dont like people because people are not trust worthy any more. people lie, steal, kill, and a lot other of messed up things usually out of greed. But everyone gets greedy one time or another i think the thing that upsets me about the human race now days is the unloyalty to others that have been loyal to you. i take the term "Ride or Die' very serious and others need to as well

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in this picture it shows isolation and community. in this picture I feel like isolation is better because in one of the bowls their is a lot of fish So theirs not a lot of room. isolation is not always a bad thing but to much could be a bad.

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Austin

in this picture there are two groups that are separated and isolated from each other so there is no contact between the two groups. the different colors can mean that they shouldnt be together. although they are different colors does not mean they should be separated.

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This light house is isolated already by itself in the middle of the ocean. But it also shows that you can still get stuff done while you’re isolated. Because the light house still does It’s job when no one is around it. It can show that isolation is not always a bad thing. And that you can sometimes get more done isolated.

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David Wasleske

Terry Davis is known to everyone as "Gods Lonely Programmer". The reason for that is because he was schizophrenic. Which doesn't mean you have multiple personality's, but that the reality you see is far different from what someone with schizophrenia would see. He believed that isolation has affected him positively, and although he didn't get worse, he certainly didn't get better. As he dived further and further into isolation, his insanity went into the depths with him, being his guiding light. He was only understood by schizophrenics like himself.

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In the beginning there is darkness. The screen erupts in blue, then a cascade of thick, white hexadecimal numbers and cracked language, "UnusedStk" and "AllocMem." Black screen cedes to blue to white and a pair of scales appear, crossed by a sword, both images drawn in the jagged, bitmapped graphics of Windows 1.0-era clip-art-light grey and yellow on a background of light cyan. Blue text proclaims, "God on tap!"

This is TempleOS V2.17, the welcome screen explains, a "Public Domain Operating System" produced by Trivial Solutions of Las Vegas, Nevada. It greets the user with a riot of 16-color, scrolling, blinking text; depending on your frame of reference, it might recall ​DESQview, the ​Commodore 64, or a host of early DOS-based graphical user interfaces. In style if not in specifics, it evokes a particular era, a time when the then-new concept of "personal computing" necessarily meant programming and tinkering and breaking things.

It's all innocuously familiar. You see a sprite-based first person shooter called Castle Frankenstein and a dollar-bill icon that opens a budgeting application. Vocab is a multiple-choice quiz (can you define "folliculous"?). A Battlezone homage opens with the admonishment, "Write games, don't play them!"

Then there are less mundane features. Pressing F7 anywhere in TempleOS summons a pseudo-random "tongues word." Five F7s at the command prompt might produce downmarket Dada like "flashedt ARE evil madly peacemaker." Shift-F7 inserts a Bible passage. (Or, less revelatory, the copyright notice from Project Gutenberg's e-text Bible.) Jukebox offers a collection of PC-speaker tunes with Biblically inspired lyrics, like this gloss on Mark 4:37: Lord, there's a storm upon the sea / Lord, there's a storm upon the sea /Relax, fellas / (Sea became glass).

TempleOS is more than an exercise in retro computing, or a hobbyist's space for programming close to the bare metal. It's the brainchild-perhaps the life's work-of 44-year-old Terry Davis, the founder and sole employee of Trivial Solutions. For more than a decade Davis has worked on it; today, TempleOS is 121,176 lines of code, which puts it on par with Photoshop 1.0. (By comparison, Windows 7, a full-fledged modern operating system designed to be everything to everyone, filled with decades of cruft, is ​about 40 million lines.)

He's done this work because God told him to. ​According to the TempleOS charter, it is "God's official temple. Just like Solomon's temple, this is a community focal point where offerings are made and God's oracle is consulted." God also told Davis that 640x480, 16-color graphics "is a covenant like circumcision," making it easier for children to make drawings for God. God demands a perfect temple, and Davis says, "For ten years, I worked on programming TempleOS, full time. I finished, basically, and the last year has been tiny touch-ups here and there."

Within TempleOS he built an oracle called AfterEgypt, which lets users climb Mt. Horeb along with a stick-figure Moses. At the summit, a round scrawl of rapidly changing color comes into sight-the burning bush. Before it you should praise God. You can praise Him for anything, Davis says, including sand castles, snowmen, popcorn, bubbles, isotopes, and sand crabs.

"The Holy Spirit can puppet you," the screen reads. When you press the spacebar, an onscreen timer stops, and a corresponding Biblical passage appears. "Sometimes interpretation is tricky," Davis says in ​one of his many YouTube demonstrations. He describes this AfterEgypt oracle as a technical improvement on speaking in tongues or using a Ouija board, and points to 1 Corinthians 14:2: "For one who speaks in a tongue does not speak to men but to God; for no one understands, but in his spirit he speaks mysteries."

Davis hasn't hesitated to speak to the world about God's digital temple. Back in 2004, he was calling it ​the ​J Operating System and ​ ​OSNews profiled his work. He later renamed it LoseThos-a somewhat murky reference to a scene in Platoon-and had a ​productive conversation with the contributors at MetaFilter, where his work was introduced as "an operating system written by a schizophrenic programmer."

He has been diagnosed with schizophrenia, having dealt with mental health issues since the mid-1990s. Because Davis often communicates in blocks of text produced by his oracle, or with apparently off-topic declarations about God, he's had accounts ​ ​banned from SomethingAwful and Reddit. He can be aggressive and confrontational, sometimes denouncing critics with profanity and call them "nigger."

This has gotten him ​"shadowbanned" on Hackernews, meaning he's visible only to users who've explicitly chosen to see his "dead" posts, and has led to a lengthy discussion about how to manage a fellow message board member's mental illness. MetaFilter and ​ ​Reddit have similarly touching, frustrating conversations among people grappling with basic questions of empathy and community.

But none of this is the recognition Davis is looking for in building God's temple. "It's nice when getting attention," he says, "but now I know what it's like." It rarely means more people using TempleOS to talk to God.

So, what compelled him to build a 16-color world in worship? I wanted to understand, as best I could, how he's spent a decade as God's lonely programmer, a voice in the wilderness shouting the good news.

Davis emails me regularly and late into the night, in Courier font, from a two or three year-old Dell desktop running Ubuntu. Unable to work, he collects Social Security disability and spends most of his time coding, web surfing, or using the output from the ​ ​National Institute of Standards and Technology randomness beacon to talk to God-he posts the results on his webpage as "Terry Davis' Rants."

He drinks a lot of caffeine and lives mostly on a 48-hour schedule

He drinks a lot of caffeine and lives mostly on a 48-hour schedule: "I stay awake 16*2 and sleep 8*2." He shares a house with his parents and a pair of cockatiels. Of his parents he says, "We don't interact that much."

Terry Davis was born in December 1969, in West Allis, Wisconsin, just west of Milwaukee, the seventh of eight children. His brothers and sisters were close, but about his relationship with them today he says, "Jesus did not talk to his siblings-he wanted nothing to do with them, strangers are better. I am the same way."

His dad was an industrial engineer, and the family moved a lot while Davis was growing up, from Wisconsin to Washington to Michigan to California to Arizona. In an elementary school gifted program, he started using an Apple II; in the early 1980s, he learned assembly language on a Commodore 64, then continued programming throughout high school. Then he enrolled at Arizona State University, where he earned his bachelor's degree, then a master's in electrical engineering in 1994.

After graduation he stayed in Tempe, Arizona, partly because he had a job. As an undergrad he'd been hired at Ticketmaster to program operating systems. He liked the work, but when the company shifted him to research projects that never seemed to pan out, he decided it was time to look elsewhere. He was 26, had a master's degree, and he wanted to use that knowledge to build satellite control systems. In early 1996 he sent out some resumes to defense contractors.

He'd grown up Catholic, but later embraced atheism. "I thought the brain was a computer," Davis says, "And so I had no need for a soul." He saw himself as a scientific materialist; he believes that metaphor-the brain as a computer-has done more to increase the number of atheists than anything by Darwin. He still considers himself scientifically minded. "Today I find the people most similar to me are atheist-scientist people," he says. "The difference is God has talked to me, so I'm basically like an atheist who God has talked to."

Davis describes how that happened in a fragmentary, elliptical way, perhaps because it was such a profoundly subjective experience, or maybe because it still embarrasses him. "It's not very flattering," he says. "It looks a lot like mental illness, as opposed to some glorious revelation from God." It was a period of tribulation, but to this day he declares, "I was being led along the path by God. It just doesn't look very glorious."

In mid-March 1996, "I started seeing people following me around in suits and stuff. It just seemed something was strange," he says. He thought it might be part of a background check by one of his prospective employers, but it unnerved him. He began connecting it to a side-project he'd worked on involving computer control systems. And he'd been listening to Rage Against the Machine; ​the li​ne, "Some of those work forces are the same that burn crosses" stuck with him for reasons unknown.

He got thinking about conspiracy theories and the men he'd seen following him and a big idea he'd had. He spooked himself. "It would sound polite if you said I scared myself thinking about quantum computers," he says now. "And then I guess you just throw in your ordinary mental illness."

He left town. Driving south with no clear destination, he says, "I was listening to the radio and it seemed like the radio was talking to me." It spouted commentary on everything he did. He believed the end of the world was at hand. His head swam with conspiracy theories and apocalyptic foreboding.

He ended up in Marfa, Texas, where he abandoned his car -a Honda Accord his parents had given him. He'd started thinking about Big Oil and the conspiracies alleged to have suppressed more efficient, water-based engines. He'd torn off all the side panels from his car looking for a tracking device, then stopped the car and pitched the keys into the desert. He walked. A cop pulled up and ushered him into the passenger's seat. Moments later, Davis dove out of the cruiser, breaking his collarbone.

At the hospital, he overheard doctors talking about "artifacts" on his X-ray scans. Panicked at the thought of artifacts supposedly left inside by alien abductors, he bolted from the hospital, despite the broken collarbone. When he tried to steal a pickup truck idling nearby, the police caught up with him. In jail, he reasoned that he could open his cell door by flipping the circuit breaker; he broke his glasses and stuck them into the cell's electrical outlet, only to realize he had non-conductive frames. The police rushed in. "I think I stripped," Davis says, "because I was thinking of corporate logos being bad or something."

He was taken to a mental hospital, where he refused to eat the food, thinking it might be drugged. He broke a window with a chair. Released after two weeks, he sought to emulate Jesus by giving away all his belongings; he donated to Goodwill, and delivered presents to his siblings' children. He may have crossed into Mexico at some point, then had to bribe his way back across the border. He just drove, looking to street signs to divine God's will. Later he lived on the streets.

"In the Bible it says if you seek God, He will be found of you," Davis says now. "I was really seeking, and I was looking everywhere to see what he might be saying to me."

"Looking back on it, I'm not especially proud of the logic and thinking. It looks very young and childish and pathetic," Davis adds. He compares the experience to having a switch flipped, one that revealed his deepest conscience and morality. "I felt guilty for being such a technology-advocate atheist," he says. He thought of the Amish and Little House on the Prairie -simple, decent ways of living with God.

In one of his rants, he writes, "In 1996, I off-handedly decided to give a few dollars to charity for the blind. I was an atheist from 1990-1996 and gave nothing to charity. Perhaps, that act caused God to reveal Himself to me and saved me." He estimates he gave about $10,000 to the Newman Center, Arizona State's campus ministry.

By July of 1996, his mental state had calmed enough that he returned to Arizona. For the next year he lived on credit cards, trying to make a business out of a ​three-axis milling machine he'd prototyped. (It was obvious to him that 3D printing would be the next big thing, but it was also painfully slow.) After an errant Dremel tool nearly set his apartment on fire, he abandoned the idea.

Eventually he moved in with his parents in Vegas, hoping to save money while he worked on a book, a sequel to George Orwell's 1984. He didn't finish it.

"From 1996 to 2003, about every six months I would have what they call a manic episode and I would end up in a mental hospital," he says. He hasn't been to a hospital since; once diagnosed as bipolar, he's since been declared schizophrenic. He now only takes a single medication, and shrugs off the diagnosis. The label doesn't concern him. "For those first few years, I was genuinely pretty crazy in a way. Now I'm not. I'm crazy in a different way maybe," he says. He says he's learned not to freak out. ​

As 64-bit computing began trickling down to desktops around 2003, Davis saw it as the next big disruption. He dusted off some code from ten years earlier, when he'd worked on operating systems for Ticketmaster and tinkered on the side. "It kind of developed on its own," he says, "I didn't plan it."

But the idea of a digital oracle grew out of his earlier methods for talking to God. At first he'd open a Bible to a random page, and it would speak. Yet he had a general sense of where the book had opened, whether he might be choosing from Genesis or Revelation. He began using coin tosses to choose a page number; then he expanded his technique to include all the books in his library. Soon he'd settled on a digital timer for his oracle, AfterEgypt.

He kept the rest of the programming simple. God told him to stick to 640x480 and 16 colors, with only a single audio voice. Like Noah, he built as he was commanded. "It's really obvious what to do next," he says, "and it can keep you busy for the first ten years." But now he's finished.

He talks to God constantly, and his God is conversational, even chatty

"The way God works is he caused the course of my life. I can see how it's been a charmed life in some ways, so I think He planned it," Davis says. Sometimes he seems to believe TempleOS will exist for 1,000 years, that it will be embraced and perfected by the giants of Silicon Valley, and that he will be recognized as King Solomon 2.0. Other times he seems less certain, even vulnerable to doubt. "Is it going to be as big as Solomon's Temple?" he asks. "I don't know. But we'll see. What else is there?"

He talks to God constantly, and his God is conversational, even chatty. In fact, Davis believes he's proven God speaks to him. He believes anything can be an oracle; that the divine word reveals itself through randomness.

At least a dozen times on his webpage, he describes putting a question to his mother. If he won the lottery three times, he asks, would she believe? No, she responds, because improbable things happen all the time. "I can sit down with my parents and praise God and open the Bible randomly," he says, "and it will talk." For him this is both astounding and undeniable, an ongoing revelation, like winning the lottery ten times every day. Yet, he says, "They just ignore it because i​t's against their way of thinking. They just ignore the facts.

Terry Davis asks God about war ("Servicemen competing") and death ("awful"), about dinosaurs ("Brontosaurs' feet hurt when stepped") and His favorite video game ("Donkey Kong"). God's favorite car is a "Beamer," and His favorite singer is Mick Jagger, though if He could sing He'd want to sound like Christopher Hall from Stabbing Westward. His favorite national anthem is Latvia's. His favorite band is, no surprise, The Beatles, but Rush and Triumph are pretty good, too. Classical music is poison. The best thing Bill Gates could do to save lives, God says, is work on earthquake prediction. The Eleventh Commandment is "Thou shall not litter." Terry Davis tells God everything seems bad. God replies: "Plant trees."

The words pour out on TempleOS.org, a torrent of verified random numbers, news links, YouTube videos, and scriptural exegesis. It's the dense work of a single, restless mind writing ceaselessly without an audience.

After two months of emails and phone conversations, I know more than when I began; specifically, I've accumulated more raw data, more facts about his life and experience. But I suspect I've only sketched a shadow. The full reality remains unreachable, an irreducible mystery.

One morning, Davis emailed me about this story, saying, "What people are going to read is, 'It's about a pathetic schizophrenic who made a crappy operating system.' My perspective is, 'God said I made His temple.'" It echoed something he'd written before: "I don't care much about you and your story. It's not likely to be what it actually is-world news with God claiming His temple."

I can't disagree. Theophany belongs to those who can see, and the rest are barred from its consolation. Davis believes he has proven he can talk to God through random numbers; he calls his parents sheep, because they cannot believe this. The word they-we-have for him is schizophrenic, and the condition is never cured, only treated. Terry Davis has offered the world a temple to a God who speaks only to him, and is and still waiting for everyone else to listen.

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To me this picture represents the positive side of Isolation. Being alone is a great thing since you can get rid of the troubles easier and be at peace alone. For me I'm always Isolated since I wanna be left alone on my Xbox playing by myself. I have no good friends to hangout with so might as well isolate myself. I think Isolation good to me, it calms me when I'm alone.

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1-the sun is isolated because nothing is around it and it has no interactions because no one wants to get near it.
2-  the sun is always on fire like it has so much power but in reality everyone just kinda ignores it because they see it everyday.
3- the sun has never once interacted around any other living thing. its just alone forever. no one wants to get hurt by it
4- This could prove that no matter how 'well known" or how much someone talks about you everyday you can still be alone or have no one.
5- The sun does the same thing everyday. year after year. it never changes up because it doesn't want to. it isolates itself in the air.

-krystal aleuy hr.3

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Bret

Notre Dame isn't part of a conference in college football. This isolates them since they do not belong anywhere and have any organized area. Since they don't have a conference and are isolated they sometimes are not chosen for some bowl games. They choose to isolate themselves though since they could join a conference if they wanted to but choose instead not to. In there case it isn't really a big negative they are isolated either since it gives them more freedom.

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Here represents a gif of Ivan Drago from Rocky IV. And if you have already see the movie Creed Dos, then you are familiar with it. SPOILER ALERT FOR ROCKY FANS FOR CREED II. Drago is part of a community but outside of the community, he is isolated from the world. After being knocked out by heavyweight world champion, Rocky Balboa, in avenge of Apollo's death, Drago spent his years without his wife, without wealth, and being prisoned. This is also a tyranny for this concept because this possibly remarks the Cold war for the Rocky movie that showed between the Russians and the Americans of how they were mean to each other because of communism. But this also may have been a possiblity with the two countries with economics. (I.e. america is wealthier and kind off low class or middle class but russia is highly wealthable).My point is that we all get along and that this fight have never happen besides the last rocky movies shouldn't have never been made and it wouldve ended with the happy ending in rocky iii.

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thomas

i would say it is better to be in the community then to be isolated, because everyone in the community in this picture seems together and better protected. The red guy is isolated because he is not part of the circle. He is also isolated because he is red. The red one seems sad and all the others are happy i think it’s because they have others. I think isolation causes sadness in a lot of ways compared to a community that has people to help you out.

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Kurt Cobain was a figure of isolation both prior to, and after he became famous. Here we see him in a pensive moment which could reflect his feelings of being isolated. These feelings eventually became so overwhelming that Cobain took his own life. This could be the ultimate example of how isolation affects people in American culture. The irony of Cobain's isolation and his tragic ending is that there were literally millions of people that forced him into isolation due to their demands on him as fans, and the same millions of fans that would have given the shirts off their backs to help him through his traumatic isolation. (BTW-I can't stand Cobain. He and Nirvana destroyed hair bands!)

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Kevin Durant was the best player for the oklahoma city thunder and for some reason he decided to leave and go play for a super team to try and win a championship. He got hated on so much that people still talk about it today. He had fans and love where he was at and threw it away to go to an already really good team. He felt isolated in that tons of people hated on him for one decision. He really started the movement of other players doing this too. He received a lot of negativity towards this but ended up winning a championship and more to come. He suffered in isolation but is now thriving in the NBA. David Darst

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Evie Pellman

This illustration is by a web user named Futarinokizuna_, titled "Idol". This represents impact on American culture, or just the celebrities in general as we cage them in of "love", without no escape. Fame can really wear out a person in time, but they usually can't get out of the light because every movement, post, even a breath is being watched. They sometimes feel they have no escape, hence the knife in the girl's hand.

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There are two types of people, those who recharge and feel better in social outings, and those who become more engaged with the world when alone. This article talks about how there is loneliness and isolation, and they both feed off of each other even though they are different concepts. Loneliness is based on the quality of life you're living, while isolation is separation that could or could not be intentional. If either one is raised, then it can lead to the other rising also, which overall leads to higher death rates. So if you choose to isolate yourself you have a much higher chance of mortality from loneliness. But a community can be stressful. It's best to switch off with the two, whether you're a social or isolating person.

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With the increasing popularity of online personality tests and the curiosity of finding out what's our Myers-Briggs personality type, society has gained a new understanding of individual differences and the different ways in which people operate. While there are some who feel energized when socializing with others, there are others who feel recharged when they spend time by themselves.

There's no "right way" or "wrong way," but this post is intended for the latter. Those with a tendency to isolate themselves and choose to be physically alone. Believe me, as a fellow plan-canceling aficionada whose ideal Friday night involves staying at home and watching a good movie or reading a good book, I completely get it. There's no feeling quite like staying in.

But, with what frequency are you isolating yourself? How to know when this can become potentially troubling or dangerous? How can this repeated behavior affect your health? How is this related to the feeling of loneliness?
The difference between isolation and loneliness
First, let's start by defining key concepts. is defined as a state or situation characterized by being physically separated from other people - whether intentional or not. Loneliness, on the other hand, is defined by an internal feeling - it's about quality, not quantity.

In this way, one can socially isolate or separate themselves from other people, but not necessarily feel alone or lonely. In a similar way, one can be surrounded by many people and feel as if they were the only person in the room. Social isolation can be desired or sought out by an individual, but loneliness is normally not a choice. Having said that, how do they relate?
The relationship between social isolation and loneliness
A recent study published in the journal Health Psychology found that both concepts - though normally studied in the way they are different - have an interdependent relationship. What does this mean? That instead of seeing them as isolated concepts, it's better to analyze and study them together, with the goal to understand our physical and mental health.

The researchers found that a higher level of social isolation usually produces higher levels of loneliness; and high levels of loneliness makes people prone to socially isolate themselves, as well. And, when manifested together in people, a higher risk of mortality is associated.
Tips for honoring your alone time while at the same time protecting your health
These results can give us valuable information about the frequency with which we decide to socially isolate ourselves from others and its effect on our mental health - especially with the copious evidence associating loneliness to several mental health conditions - and our physical health. So, what to do about this?

The positive aspect of these studies is that they offer us a space to act preventively. They give us enough information to develop an action plan. So, here are some tips to make the most of your time alone, without over-doing it:

Give yourself a timeframe. How many outings a month are you comfortable with? For some people, it's 1-2 a month, while for others it can be more. Whatever the time you give yourself, try to keep at it and be patient with yourself. Remind yourself that while nothing is set in stone, it's still important to know yourself and know if you're predisposed to falling in the isolation trap.

Talk to a close friend. My closest friends know exactly when to push me a bit further to socialize with others and when to respect my personal space. This isn't something that was formed overnight, it's a product of years of close dialogue and honest conversations about what I am and I'm not comfortable with. Talk to a friend who you can trust about all of this so they can help you not fall into an isolation trap.

Do something for your community or for others. Volunteering and engaging in selfless activities has been shown to have positive effects on mental health. Whether it's belonging to a group, foundation or a community, think about doing something positive for others as a way to do something positive for yourself.

Enroll in a book or cultural appreciation club. The positive thing about these groups is that the frequency with which they meet is a complete sweet spot: not enough that it might be overwhelming for you, but just enough to keep you interested. If you already enjoy reading, why not kill two birds with one stone and get a wonderful discussion about the books you read?

Do you have any other recommendation of something you've done that has helped you minimize your social isolation and loneliness? Please share them with me in the comment section down below.

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When Isolating Yourself Becomes Dangerous

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With the increasing popularity of online personality tests and the curiosity of finding out what's our Myers-Briggs personality type, society has gained a new understanding of individual differences and the different ways in which people operate. While there are some who feel energized when socializing with others, there are others who feel recharged when they spend time by themselves.

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In, this picture the figure in the middle is separated from everyone else. He has boundaries keeping him away from the others. The figure is also red while all the others are yellow so he doesn't quite fit in.  The tings keeping him away from the others are isolating him. He never has a chance to unisolate himself either.

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heres a picture of lebron with the lakers. lebron james is the king when it comes to basketball like he the best in world. this is isolation in america because lebron is on top of the media everyday cause he doin positive stuff or breaking records. at in 2016 the biggest game of the year he blocked somebody shot so they could win the nba finals. nobody gives lebron his props he is bigger than basketball but people still hate on him.

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This is an illustration by Futarinokizuna_ titled Social anxiety. It's hard to reach out and talk when it feels like every movement is being judged. It's like playing with a bomb. This isolation affects my life in a way, although my social anxiety isn't as bad as others, but it's up there. I come off as awkward, and every time I finish talking with someone, I become more self aware of how awkward I am, and I feel so much smaller than I already feel. That's why, I think just some people are better to be isolated, people like me, that just wants to get away from the world because they think they're not as functional. Or just plainly want the isolation.

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Here represents Jordan being positively adorable in reality, but outside of reality, there is a difference between cruelty, deception, and insanity that explores the weaknesses of the human mind that can take a nipple and destroy it for bc (not because) besides there is one thing that we protagonists can do to save life-faliures. Jordan locked himself in his bedroom and he cried like a wuss after he was cut from his high school basketball team for being too short.

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THEN, you will provide 5 sentences of commentary about the resource that you post.

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1. Is it better to be isolated,
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2. How does isolation impact people
in American culture? How is American
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Hikikomori is a psychological condition which makes people shut themselves off from society, often staying in their houses for months on end.

There are at least half a million of them in Japan.

It was once thought of as a young person's condition, but sufferers are getting older and staying locked away for longer.

It is an economic as well as a social threat to the country, and is seriously worrying Shinzo Abe's government.

Hayashi Kyoko started becoming a social recluse when her high school principal started talking about university entrance exams on the first day of school.

"The fun high-school life I was looking forward to transformed into nothing more than a period of test preparation," the Japanese native told the online magazine Nippon.com.

"It was a huge shock. I'd sensed before that I didn't belong in the strictly regimented education system. This feeling manifested itself in physical symptoms, and I stopped going to school."

And as she grew older she started working a part-time job and, facing pressure from her mother, Kyoko said she "hit her limit" and could no longer face leaving the house or meeting people.

Kyoko wasn't alone. She had become one of half a million "hikikomori," a Japanese term referring to people who avoid shut themselves at home and avoid social contact. (The term refers to both the person and the condition.)

Her lowest point was in her mid-twenties, she said: "I spent all my waking hours criticising myself... All I did was get up afternoon, eat, excrete, and breathe. I was like a living corpse. I couldn't find the tiniest bit of worth in myself. I thought my life was meaningless.

"I had this terrible kind of fury I didn't know where to direct, and I was always exhausted."

'A middle-class malady'

The Japanese government officially defines hikikomori as people who haven't left their homes or interacted with others for at least six months.

But hikikomori can come in various forms: One person's condition can be so severe that they lack the energy to leave their sofa to go to the toilet, like one hikikomori who spoke to the website Quartz.

Another could suffer from obsessive compulsive disorders so serious that they shower several hours a day or scrub their shower tiles for hours, such as who spoke to The New York Times. A third hikikomori said they played video games all day "as if it would tranquilise me."

Professor Jeff Kingston, an Asian studies professor at Temple University in Tokyo, told Business Insider:

"Sweeping generalisations are always misleading... [But] it seems they are mostly males who exhibit extreme symptoms of social withdrawal who often live at home with parents who take care of them.

"They rarely leave their rooms or their homes, and reportedly live in and limit interactions to the virtual world.

"It is considered a middle class malady because only hikikomori from such backgrounds can rely on the support of their families."

As of 2015, there were 541,000 hikikomori aged 15-39 in Japan, according to government statistics. There is no data on other age groups, suggesting that the figure is likely to be far larger. Some families are also loath to report hikikomori in their households, Kingston said.

Japan announced last Sunday that it would conduct its first nationwide survey of hikikomori among 40-to-59-year-olds later this year, according to the country's Kyodo news agency.

Previous surveys on the phenomenon were only of 15-to-39-year-olds, as authorities previously believed the condition was limited to young people. The government has since noticed hikikomori grow older and face longer periods of reclusiveness, Kyodo said.

The country now hopes to identify older hikikomori and understand the assistance their families need. As hikikomori grow older and their parents become too elderly to care for them, questions over their fate will become more urgent.

Kingston said: "The survey will provide more accurate information because it hasn't been done before. I suspect it will provide a basis for improving state policies towards them because it will detail their needs, but the social stigma will persist."

According to The New York Times, doctors began to observe hikikomori as a social phenomenon around the mid-1980s, when young men exhibited signs of lethargy, refused to communicate, and spent most of their time in their rooms.

There's no unifying reason why people become hikikomori. Some, like Kyoko, withdraw from society because they feel they don't know what to do with their lives and can no longer cope with the pressure from people around them. Others are triggered by events in their lives, like bad grades or heartbreak, the BBC said.

As psychiatrist Sekiguchi Hiroshi wrote on Nippon.com: "Hikikomori feel a deep sense of shame that they cannot work at a job like ordinary people. They think of themselves as worthless and unqualified for happiness. Almost all feel remorse at having betrayed their parents' expectations.

"At the same time, they are beset by internal conflict between the self that cannot go out into the world and the self that constantly condemns their failure to do so."

As Tamaki Saito, one of the country's first and leading researchers in hikikomori, told the BBC: "They are tormented in the mind. They want to go out in the world, they want to make friends or lovers, but they can't."

The economic impact of hikikomori

As hikikomori refuse to participate in society, let alone go to work, Japan's economy also suffers.

Professor Kingston said: "They diminish the size of the workforce, so contribute to a tighter labour market.

"Also, they are not self-sufficient, so when family support dries up due to death or financial problems, they will need to rely on state assistance."

Japan already faces an aging population and massive labour market shortages. There are about one and a half job vacancies per applicant in Japan, the government reported in September - the highest for more than 40 years.

According to Bloomberg, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced plans in late 2016 to set up counselling centres and have support staff visit hikikomori at home in a bid to boost the country's flagging workforce.

Whether the policy has worked is unclear, but Kageki Asakura, a dean at Tokyo's nonprofit Shure University, said it was "putting pressure on hikikomori."

What are the solutions?

Kyoko, the woman who was house-bound in her twenties, said she "rejoined" society around a decade later.

Along the way she almost killed herself, saw a psychiatrist, and started talking to other hikikomori. After turning 40, she also started managing hikikomori self-help groups in Yokohama, where she lives.

Other volunteer groups, such as New Start, try to get hikikomori to go to community centres, get work experience, and socialise.

New Start runs a "Rental Sister" programme, where volunteers visit hikikomori's houses and chat to them from the other side of their bedroom door to try to get them out, reported freelance photographer Maika Elan, who visited a New Start centre in Chiba-shi, a city near Tokyo, in 2016.

It usually takes a "rental sister" one to two years to coax hikikomori out their bedrooms, Elan said.

Other hikikomori set up a newspaper to shed light on the country's recluses. Established in November 2016, the Hikikomori Shimbun ("shimbun" is Japanese for "newspaper") discusses the phenomenon around the country and hopes to serve as a link between hikikomori and the outside world, according to Japan's Asahi Shimbun.

Professor Kingston said: "One can only hope that more access to various therapies and public health campaigns to destigmatise the phenomenon will encourage more to seek help, find it, and learn to manage their symptoms so that they can lead more productive and fulfilling lives."

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A psychological ailment called 'hikikomori' is imprisoning 500,000 Japanese people in their homes - and it's more of a threat than ever

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Hikikomori is a psychological condition which makes people shut themselves off from society, often staying in their houses for months on end. There are at least half a million of them in Japan. It was once thought of as a young person's condition, but sufferers are getting older and staying locked away for longer.

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As many as a million young people in Japan are thought to remain holed up in their homes - sometimes for decades at a time. Why?

For Hide, the problems started when he gave up school.

"I started to blame myself and my parents also blamed me for not going to school. The pressure started to build up," he says.

"Then, gradually, I became afraid to go out and fearful of meeting people. And then I couldn't get out of my house."

Gradually, Hide relinquished all communication with friends and eventually, his parents. To avoid seeing them he slept through the day and sat up all night, watching TV.

"I had all kinds of negative emotions inside me," he says. "The desire to go outside, anger towards society and my parents, sadness about having this condition, fear about what would happen in the future, and jealousy towards the people who were leading normal lives."

Hide had become "withdrawn" or hikikomori.

In Japan, hikikomori, a term that's also used to describe the young people who withdraw, is a word that everyone knows.

Find out more

The Truth about Mental Health: Hikikomori will be broadcast on the BBC World Service at 14:30 GMT on Friday 5 July

Read more from the Mental Health series

When does your mental health become a problem?

Tamaki Saito was a newly qualified psychiatrist when, in the early 1990s, he was struck by the number of parents who sought his help with children who had quit school and hidden themselves away for months and sometimes years at a time. These young people were often from middle-class families, they were almost always male, and the average age for their withdrawal was 15.

It might sound like straightforward teenage laziness. Why not stay in your room while your parents wait on you? But Saito says sufferers are paralysed by profound social fears.

"They are tormented in the mind," he says. "They want to go out in the world, they want to make friends or lovers, but they can't."

Otaku v hikikomori

An overlapping group of people with the hikikomori, otaku are "geeks" or "nerds"

They are known for their obsessions, especially manga cartoons and anime

"Otaku" is the formal word for "you" in Japanese - it's thought that the term came about from the tendency of socially awkward manga fans to use over-formal language

In press coverage, both otaku and hikikomori have been linked with serious sex crimes

Symptoms vary between patients. For some, violent outbursts alternate with infantile behaviour such as pawing at the mother's body. Other patients might be obsessive, paranoid and depressed.

When Saito began his research, social withdrawal was not unknown, but it was treated by doctors as a symptom of other underlying problems rather than a pattern of behaviour requiring special treatment.

Since he drew attention to the phenomenon, it is thought the numbers of hikikomori have increased. A conservative estimate of the number of people now affected is 200,000, but a 2010 survey for the Japanese Cabinet Office came back with a much higher figure - 700,000. Since sufferers are by definition hidden away, Saito himself places the figure higher still, at around one million.

The average age of hikikomori also seems to have risen over the last two decades. Before it was 21 - now it is 32.

So why do they withdraw?

The trigger for a boy retreating to his bedroom might be comparatively slight - poor grades or a broken heart, for example - but the withdrawal itself can become a source of trauma. And powerful social forces can conspire to keep him there.

One such force is sekentei, a person's reputation in the community and the pressure he or she feels to impress others. The longer hikikomori remain apart from society, the more aware they become of their social failure. They lose whatever self-esteem and confidence they had and the prospect of leaving home becomes ever more terrifying.

Parents are also conscious of their social standing and frequently wait for months before seeking professional help.

A second social factor is the amae - dependence - that characterises Japanese family relationships. Young women traditionally live with their parents until marriage, and men may never move out of the family home. Even though about half of hikikomori are violent towards their parents, for most families it would be unthinkable to throw them out.

What about the girls?

Hikikomori are seen as predominantly male - Tamaki Saito says males occupy 70%- 80% of the group

However, an internet survey by NHK found just 53% to be male

Female withdrawal into the home seems so natural to Japanese society that it may remain unreported, speculates Andy Furlong at the University of Glasgow

But in exchange for decades of support for their children, parents expect them to show respect and fulfil their role in society of getting a job.

Matsu became hikikomori after he fell out with his parents about his career and university course.

"I was very well mentally, but my parents pushed me the way I didn't want to go," he says. "My father is an artist and he runs his own business - he wanted me to do the same." But Matsu wanted to become a computer programmer in a large firm - one of corporate Japan's army of "salarymen".

"But my father said: 'In the future there won't be a society like that.' He said: 'Don't become a salaryman.'"

Like many hikikomori, Matsu was the eldest son and felt the full weight of parental expectation. He grew furious when he saw his younger brother doing what he wanted. "I became violent and had to live separately from my family," he says.

One way to interpret Matsu's story is see him as being at the faultline of a cultural shift in Japan.

"Traditionally, Japanese psychology was thought to be group-oriented - Japanese people do not want to stand out in a group," says Yuriko Suzuki, a psychologist at the National Institute for Mental Health in Tokyo. "But I think especially for the younger generation, they want more individualised or personalised care and attention. I think we are in a mixed state."

But even hikikomori who desperately want to fulfil their parents' plans for them may find themselves frustrated.

Andy Furlong, an academic at the University of Glasgow specialising in the transition from education to work, connects the growth of the hikikomori phenomenon with the popping of the 1980s "bubble economy" and the onset of Japan's recession of the 1990s.

It was at this point that the conveyor belt of good school grades leading to good university places leading to jobs-for-life broke down. A generation of Japanese were faced with the insecurity of short-term, part-time work.

And it came with stigma, not sympathy.

Job-hopping Japanese were called "freeters" - a combination of the word "freelance" and the German word for "worker", arbeiter. In political discussion, freeters were frequently bundled together with "neets" - an adopted British acronym meaning "not in education, employment or training". Neets, freeters, hikikomori - these were ways of describing the good-for-nothing younger generation, parasites on the flagging Japanese economy. The older generation, who graduated and slotted into steady careers in the 1960s and 1970s, could not relate to them.

"The opportunities have changed fundamentally," says Furlong. "I don't think the families always know how to handle that."

A common reaction is for parents to treat their recalcitrant son with anger, to lecture them and make them feel guilty for bringing shame on the family. The risk here is that - as with Hide - communication with parents may break down altogether. But some parents have been driven to extreme measures.

For a time one company operating in Nagoya could be hired by parents to burst into their children's rooms, give them a big dressing down, and forcibly drag them away to a dormitory to learn the error of their ways.

Hikikomori - just a Japanese thing?

Hikikomori has entered the Oxford English Dictionary as "In Japan: abnormal avoidance of social contact"

But Saito Tamaki believes it is also a problem in Korea and Italy

After a 2002 BBC documentary, Saito received a flurry of emails from British parents who said their children were in a similar condition

Andy Furlong points out that young people in Western societies frequently "take time out" in gap years or have "false starts" on careers or courses without attracting stigma

He adds that the preconditions for a hikikomori-like problem are falling into place in Europe, with 50% youth unemployment in some countries, forcing young people to continue living at home

Kazuhiko Saito, the director of the psychiatry department at Kohnodai Hospital in Chiba, says that sudden interventions - even by healthcare professionals - can prove disastrous.

"In many cases, the patient becomes violent towards the staff or the parents in front of the counsellors, or after the counsellors have left," he says.

Kazuhiko Saito is in favour of healthcare professionals visiting hikikomori, but he says they must be fully briefed on the patient, who must know in advance that they are coming.

In any case, the do-nothing approach has been shown not to work. Tamaki Saito likens the hikikomori state to alcoholism, in that it is impossible to give up without a support network.

His approach is to begin with "reorganising" the relationship between the patient and his parents, arming desperate mothers and fathers with strategies to restart communication with their children. When the patient is well enough to come to the clinic in person he can be treated with drugs and therapy. Group therapy is a relatively new concept to Japanese psychology, but self-help groups have become a key way of drawing hikikomori into wider society.

For both Hide and Matsu, the journey to recovery was helped by visiting a charity-run youth club in Tokyo known as an ibasho - a safe place for visitors to start reintroducing themselves to society.

Both men have made progress in their relationships with their parents. Matsu has been for a job interview as a computer programmer, and Hide has a part-time job. He thinks that by starting to talk again with his parents, the whole family has been able to move on.

"They thought about their way of life in the past and in the future," he says. "I think that before - even though they were out working - their mental attitude was just like a hikikomori, but now they're more open and honest with themselves. So as their child I'm very happy to see them change."
You can listen to The Truth about Mental Health: Hikikomori on the BBC World Service at 14:30 GMT on Friday 05 July.
Many parents of hikikomori visit the ibasho even though their children may never be well enough to come with them.

Yoshiko's son withdrew from society very gradually when he was 22.

At first he would go out to buy shopping, but she observes ruefully that internet shopping means this is no longer necessary and he no longer leaves the house. He is now 50 years old.

"I think my son is losing the power or desire to do what he wants to do," she says. "Maybe he used to have something he wanted to do but I think I ruined it."

Readers shared their stories about refusing to leave the bedroom.

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Why are so many Japanese men refusing to leave their rooms?

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As many as a million young people in Japan are thought to remain holed up in their homes - sometimes for decades at a time. Why? For Hide, the problems started when he gave up school. "I started to blame myself and my parents also blamed me for not going to school.

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<p>Fuminori Akoa, 29, has been in his room for a year. "According to him, he is a great man and could do extraordinary things, but he does not always try his best," explains photographer Maika Elan who visited him with a social worker. "He changes his hobbies and goals frequently, and says he has gradually become lost."</p>

A photographer explores the hidden world of the hikikomori, and the human bonds that draw them out.

In Japan, observes photographer Maika Elan, "there are always two sides that oppose one another. It is both modern and traditional, bustling and very lonely. Restaurants and bars are always full, but if you pay close attention, most are packed with customers eating alone. And in the streets, no matter the hour, you find exhausted office employees."

The counterpart to people living solitary lives in public might well be those who have chosen to shut themselves away. Known as hikikomori, these are people, mainly men, who haven't participated in society, or shown a desire to do so, for at least a year. They rely instead on their parents to take care of them. In 2016, the Japanese government census

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Pictures of Life in Isolation: Japan's Hikikomori

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Here is a picture of Miley going against the typical "country girl" image people had of her. This picture connects to isolation in American culture because she has become an outcast in the media for being herself. At a big music award, she twerked and the world went crazy. But can't she do what she wants without people going bananas? Perhaps not if she is so in the spotlight.

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Here is a picture of Kareem Hunt! In Kareem's case he should have been Isolated that night. Kareem should have stayed in the night around February because being in community caused him to lose his spot/job on the team of the Kansas City Chiefs football team. I think Isolation impacts people in american culture is that, people start to think they stay away from others because they think "you're to good for them" or "you think you're better than me." I think American Culture is isolating people by the things that have been happening around us in our country/community.  Isolation affects my own life by talking about politics, politics can "end" our world and so I isolate myself and stay away from that. - Jorge Torres

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Here is a picture of Kareem Hunt! In Kareem's case he should have been Isolated that night. Kareem should have stayed in the night around February because being in community caused him to lose his spot/job on the team of the Kansas City Chiefs football team. I think Isolation impacts people in american culture is that, people start to think they stay away from others because they think "you're to good for them" or "you think you're better than me." I think American Culture is isolating people by the things that have been happening around us in our country/community.  Isolation affects my own life by talking about politics, politics can "end" our world and so I isolate myself and stay away from that. - Jorge Torres