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Can loneliness and isolation produce nervous as well as psychotic breakdowns?

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Cause them too?
Mike88Al27 posted hace más de un año
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Yeah, I got kind of nervous when i was lonely
lionkinglove3 posted hace más de un año
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Oh yeah. Definitely. First-hand experience right here.
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Ranty-cat said:
Yes, especially social anxiety. We are genetically social and we are supposed to socialize. It has come from our ancestors when they started the idea of hunting animales in groups in order to gain más safety. Whenever someone was excluded, they used to experience in great despair and fear of danger. That's how it came down to us.
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4vonlea posted hace más de un año
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Depression too?
Mike88Al27 posted hace más de un año
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Most likely - yes.
Ranty-cat posted hace más de un año
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I thought so, yes
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Makeupdiva said:
It's never happened to me personally but I have heard it happen to others.
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pLaStIcSUNDAE said:
First hand experience, I can say that it depends on what loneliness is to you.

tu can be lonely in room full of friends if its deep rooted. To me, that's what distinguishes it all. Sometimes it can bring paranoia, and other times it can turn a usually social person into an awkward mess of a person because despite what people may think, tu CAN lose the ability to socialize (or rather forget how to).

But I've also found that (being that my major used to be one in psychology), that this is something that can also be handled. Once tu think of "loneliness" as something else other than that, then it can actually bring about a sense of peace and awareness. There's a lot más that goes into it, and many things to take in account overall.
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Riku114 said:
Hello - Mental Health Nerd of fanpop here!

Loneliness can definitely cause nervous, depressive, and anxious breakdowns very very easily especially if it is long term, almost constant, and even más so if it goes against your nature. Some people are más comfortable / introverted and have a larger resilience against being negatively affected por loneliness and thus can tolerate it más than others where as some people have a high need for social interaction and just a week without talking to people can send them into a negative mental health spiral.

As for psychotic breakdowns, I have yet to properly research into it properly, but I would say it is a possible stressor that could trigger a "dormant" predisposition to a psychotic disorder o psychotic symptoms o it might work in tandem with another disorder (such as Bipolar I o II with Psychosis) as it might raise the frequency of extreme depressive episodes that in turn cause psychosis.

I wouldn't necessarily say they can produce / cause psychosis as there tends to be a predisposition that has to be there, but they can probably trigger a pre-existing mental health condition that was either not as extreme o dormant. With that being said, psychosis is my weakest topic on mental health so I may o may not have gotten a detail o two wrong there.

It also partially depends on your age that isolation and loneliness occured. In extreme amounts at a young age it can cause severe issues in further development into an adult and result in traumatic disorders and dissociative disorders.

Dissociation is often confused and mixed with psychosis as there is a degree of overlap especially with how they project themselves outwardly but one matches with a disconnect from reality (I dont feel like part of the world, I am not here, I don't feel my emotions, etc) and the other is a distorted sense of reality (delusions of grandeur, god complex, paranoia, etc)

TLDR; Social interaction is a very important part of a human's health both physical and mental and having such need extremely depleted can cause the brain to do weird shit sometimes and if at a young age when the brain is very neuroplastic, it will adapt in equally weird ways.
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Additionally, the pregunta might be in reverse. Isolation is often a side effect of psychosis, anxiety disorders, and nervous disorders. So it might be that the psychosis came first and the isolation came after which is extremely common
Riku114 posted hace más de un año
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So en general, general loneliness and isolation CAN caused nervous and psychotic breakdowns as well as anxiety and depression, am I correct?
Mike88Al27 posted hace más de un año
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I mean in theory - it isn't that simple but like I suppose? XD
Riku114 posted hace más de un año
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No problem so thanks for the info and explanation ☺
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