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What is the difference between isolation and loneliness?

Profile: Luminous1806
Luminous1806 on Apr 3, 2020
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I find that alone or isolated and lonely to be hugely different. While you can be alone and yet still feel loved and support, it makes a person comfortable with themselves in whatever surrounding they are in. They will always find activities that can help them grow. They accept themselves for their strengths and weaknesses and can be alone and still be happy. On the other hand, I have seen individuals in a room full of people and who are completely lonely. One who is lonely does not feel as if they have support nor do they feel loved by others and most importantly from themselves due to this, they have no sense of belonging and forgetting that no man is an island.
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Profile: CaptainBoost
CaptainBoost on Apr 4, 2020
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Isolation is when you are left alone with no one around you like being left in the home alone or being locked up in a room. Loneliness is when you feel abandoned and no one's standing by your side or even having no friends. Feeling lonely could result from having no one by your side or having even no friend supporting you or even talking to you at all. You could be isolated but not lonely and you could be lonely but not isolated. Like sitting on a bench in break time at school having no one to talk to or even to play with while isolation is just leaving you alone without anyone around you but you could be isolated but not lonely. For example, you could be locked up in a room but your friends send you letters through the window perhaps.
Profile: GuardianRose12
GuardianRose12 on Apr 4, 2020
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Isolation is where you put in a situation where you are restricted to where you can go and do certain activities normally got stay at place ie home or accommodation , loneliness is where you feel you are alone and don't have anyone to talk to, you can feel loneliness when you have a lot of people around you too, people who are in icolating can also feel loneliness if they are by themselves and feel no one to talk to its important to have someone to talk to regardless the reason why you feel lonely or in isolation
Profile: Anonymous
Anonymous on Apr 5, 2020
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Loneliness is a feeling that can creep up on you in any situation and at any time, not only when you are alone. You may feel lonely in a crowded room if you do not feel a strong personal connection to any people you are with. On the other hand, people in isolation are not necessarily lonely. Despite not physically being present, people are able to keep in touch with friends and other important people in their lives to prevent feelings of loneliness. For many, isolation and loneliness are very connected, but this is not always the case for everybody.
Profile: OkJules
OkJules on Apr 15, 2020
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Isolation is simply the state of being by oneself, while loneliness refers to the pain of feeling alone and separate from others. Isolation can be a positive experience as much as it can be a negative one; spending time with yourself can be a great way to recharge your social battery or reflect on your own life and experiences without the noise or potentially overwhelming presence of others, though it can also feel lonely and painful in other situations. The feeling of loneliness can occur when you're in a crowded room of friends and loved ones just as likely as it can when you're in isolation. Though this feeling of being alone in your experiences and feeling like others cannot connect to what you're going through can be very difficult, it can also be a great opportunity to reflect on why you're feeling this way and possibly what you can change in your life or your perception of life to feel less lonely.
Profile: luxvision
luxvision on Apr 19, 2020
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Loneliness is a feeling of sadness or distress about being by yourself or feeling disconnected from the world around you. It may be felt more over a long period of time. It is also possible to feel lonely, even when surrounded by people. Isolation is being separated from other people and your environment. Sometimes this occurs through decisions we make ourselves, or because of circumstance e.g. doing a job that requires travel or relocation, Everyone feels lonely from time to time, but long periods of loneliness or social isolation can have a negative impact on your physical, mental and social health.
Profile: Anonymous
Anonymous on Apr 21, 2020
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Isolation can have many negative emotional effects, including increased sadness, restlessness, and loneliness. While isolation can cause loneliness, the two don’t always occur together. People may find themselves socially isolated regularly as a side effect of an isolating mental health issue such as social anxiety or agoraphobia. For example, someone with agoraphobia may feel too anxious to leave their house on some days. Loneliness, on the other hand, is an emotional state. It’s defined as feeling alone or separate from others, or as feeling empty. Loneliness may accompany social isolation but can be caused by other things, including breakups or divorce, moving to a new location, or the death of a close friend or loved one. Someone who has difficulty making friends may also experience frequent loneliness. In the case of mental health, loneliness can accompany depression, anxiety, and many addictions and phobias.
Profile: barrybrontosaurus55
barrybrontosaurus55 on Apr 24, 2020
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Isolation is being by yourself, physically, whether it’s being alone in your bedroom often or stuck in a single place for a period of time. Loneliness is more mental, but if you are isolated you can be lonely too. You can be in a room full of people that love you and still feel lonely. Lonely is feeling misunderstood, like nobody gets what you’re going through. Isolation can be lonely but I think of lonely as more of feeling alone in subject of a struggle and not knowing what to do or who to go to in that situation.
Profile: MacK16
MacK16 on Apr 26, 2020
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Isolation can be either be forced or a choice. Introverts, for example, or more so isolated by choice. Socially isolated. Loneliness is being sad or upset about being socially isolated. So, the main difference between the two, then, loneliness is an emotional states. It's feeling alone and separated from others. Loneliness is feeling alone, which isolation is being physically alone. So, for a summary, isolation is the physical thing, and although isolation can cause negative feelings, such as loneliness, they don't ALWAYS go hand and hand. And also since loneliness is a state of mind, it's easy to feel alone is a crowded room of people. No matter how many people are around, you still can feel lonely.
Profile: Pattuz
Pattuz on Apr 26, 2020
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To put it in simple terms, Loneliness is a feeling where you feel 'you have no around you'. Whereas isolation is a sense of feeling where you feel like 'you don't want anyone around you' or 'nobody wants me around with them'. Acting on such a feeling and staying away from people can be said as isolation. Loneliness is a feeling or emotion that you experience when no one's around whereas isolation is an action triggered by an emotion. For isolation, a decision has to be made by you. But for loneliness, it just eventually happens. Hope this has helped. Take care.
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