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What is the difference between isolation and loneliness?

Profile: cardology
cardology on Feb 4, 2018
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Isolation and loneliness are two sides of the same coin. You can feel lonely without being isolated, and sometimes, being alone may have a positive effect on our minds. However, isolation is very different, it may feel like you don't have any contact with anyone else, be it another person or a pet. It weighs you down, and it makes you feel unreachable. Isolation is a loneliness that has stretched out over such a long period of time that it has evolved into something else.
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Profile: AshwinNaidu05
AshwinNaidu05 on Feb 11, 2018
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Isolation is being isolated like crowed and loneliness is being alone without anyone like no friends
Profile: AlisterBlain
AlisterBlain on Feb 14, 2018
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Isolation is voluntary, loneliness is uneasy and involuntary. You should know when you want to be isolated for a specific thought or do you want to be near someone. If you want someone to be around but you are not, then you are lonely.
Profile: endlesslyliam
endlesslyliam on Feb 16, 2018
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isolation is when you convince yourself that you should be alone, or you want to be alone and that you “FEEL” like you have no one to talk to or spend time with. Lonliness is when you have no one to talk to and that you generally don’t have many people in your life. Isolation is usually directly related to what people are feeling, while lonliness is something that is not in the persons control, unless they are willing to change it.
Profile: emelieclarke
emelieclarke on Feb 17, 2018
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Isolation is setting apart. Loneliness is sadness because of no company. You can be alone — and enjoy every minute of it. But from time to time, most of us experience loneliness. It's a feeling of sadness or even anxiety that occurs when you want company. On the other hand, it is possible to feel loneliness in a crowd, especially if you aren't interacting with others.
Profile: CrossroadsFangirl
CrossroadsFangirl on Feb 18, 2018
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Isolation is being on your own for extended periods of time and not having any face to face connection with people, sometimes leading to anxiety, Lonliness is having a day or two on your own and wanting to see someone or do something, this can sometimes come from boredom
Profile: Anonymous
Anonymous on Feb 18, 2018
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Isolation is where you keep yourself away from others for example if they ask you if you want to go out you say no and stay in your room everyday where as loneliness is where you want someone with you like a friend you want to spend time with someone
Profile: LyricalCloud
LyricalCloud on Feb 20, 2018
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Isolation is being totally alone. You can see or speak to anyone. Loneliness is the feeling that while you have company, you don’t really know anyone, no one really knows you and neither engages with the other in any kind of meaningful way.
Profile: Anonymous
Anonymous on Feb 21, 2018
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Isolation is more of a physical aspect, where as loneliness is more of an emotional aspect. It can go hand in hand and typically does. It can be easy to interchange these words as they can be interrupted the same way.
Profile: thewolfstays
thewolfstays on Feb 23, 2018
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Isolation means being separating from everyone else, loneliness means can't have anyone to have around
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