Help Is it true the brain eats itself in isolation?

[Surai]

If its true, I may want to remove myself, before I lose myself completely. Isolation and being surrounded by negativity is surely a torture for us humans.

 

[Hollowman]

Yeah it's probably true. I've isolated myself for most of the past decade. I'm way worse.

 

[bananaolympus]

Yes the brain can adapt to many things except true loneliness its very integrated in our dna to be social creatures

 

[steppenwolf]

No. I've lived alone for 27 years and been unemployed alone at home for 20 of them and I'm still sharp as a tack.

 

[Forever Sleep]

Not sure really. I've lived alone over 23 years. Lived and worked alone for 7. I likely am more stupid than I was but I think that's from not using thinking skills like maths, languages etc. The whole: 'use it or lose it'. I actually find it weird that I don't tend to get lonely. I doubt that's normal. Still, I suppose here gives us some social interaction. I'd likely be worse without it.

 

[conflagration]

Loneliness amplifies your mind states. When you are alone, your negative states will be amplified, as will your positive states.
People mostly have negative mind states, which is why we don't tolerate solitude well and seek escape from ourselves in company.

 

[steppenwolf]

Not sure really. I've lived alone over 23 years. Lived and worked alone for 7. I likely am more stupid than I was but I think that's from not using thinking skills like maths, languages etc. The whole: 'use it or lose it'. I actually find it weird that I don't tend to get lonely. I doubt that's normal. Still, I suppose here gives us some social interaction. I'd likely be worse without it.

Ha ha not getting lonely is totally normal. I do all sorts of cerebral things out of the necessity of maintaining some sort of value in living rather than to keep my brain and imagination active, and it has never occurred to me that I could get more and not less stupid with age, unless I develop some cruel neural pathology.

 

[brokeandbroken]

If its true, I may want to remove myself, before I lose myself completely. Isolation and being surrounded by negativity is surely a torture for us humans.

The brain shrinks/atrophies. So eat itself no. Literally be lesser yes. It is painful to be in long term isolation. Long enough the brain does some wild things just to stay alive. There may not be a more cruel punishment... Think of it this way. The punishment used for the most heinously evil people in the western world. It's isolation. It can literally break you. It's torture.

So eat itself no. Shrink/atrophy yes. Lead to a huge number of diseases and other things down the road. Yep.