What effects do isolation have on humans?

like if they were isolated for three whole years, what would they be like?What effects do isolation have on humans?
Turn on your tv and watch prison shows were people are left in solitary confinement. What effects do isolation have on humans?
There was this study I recall reading about isolating a girl completely from social interactions.. the results were insane.





I can't find the link to the study right now, but off hand I recall there was things like she behaved like a wild feral animal. She was fed through a small door flap.


Feces everywhere in the room, tore things up, did not know how to manage her temper and behavior. There was no such thing as organization, social etiquette, and a lot more other things I can't remember.





Basically picture capturing a wild caveman and locking him up in an isolated cell.
in early years isolation can even cause kids to lose the ability to speak, learn to read and properly comunicate with people.. it can cause depression, anxiety, in severe cases isolation can cause bodily mutilation to deal with being alone.. as ';stress management'; some people have been know to create their own language being apart from society. Now days all these experiments that went on in the 70's are no longer practiced but have given some major insight into human behavior and primal instincts
I'd think the person's social and verbal skills would be highly rusty. However, this is really hazardous for really young children (1-5 yrs) because they are just developing their language skills.





One child development class of mine told a story of a small child who was raised by really neglectful parents. She was not able to use any verbal skills (which is rare I admit). As she grew up, she reached a plateau in learning; no matter how hard she tried, she couldn't get past a certain speaking and understanding level.
id be surprised if they made it that long without offing themselves. My campus is dead on the weekends and if i stay i literally go insane and get depressed cry , rant, rave the whole nine yards cause im already not very social as it is and then its like BAM you ALL alone now...


so i have to have my mom pick me up which being home isnt that great either because of its own chaos but its better than isolation
You become socially impotent, dislike crowds and people. you defiantly have a lot of time to think about things, which usually leads to self dislike. Ultimately leading to a miserable, dark, and sick life. Of course this all depends on the person and his or her characteristics. Humans need other humans just as much as they need air or food.
well it would have some affect for some and no affect for others


some people right now are isolated with farms out in the country





but it would affect most people because we like to be social


look we have large cities we flock to right now with big populations its just the way we are...there not a bunch of little cities we have multiple giant cities we arent evenly dispersed we group together
It depends. One asian guy was left in a cave for years and years and he came out like a martial arts grand master that teaches his own style of martial arts. Pretty badass.





On a normal human being, they'd probably go delerious.
I watched a show on that, they were in for 48 hours and they like, went crazy. They would rock back and forth and get really mad and aggervated.





It was scary...
Too sum it up in my words





-Scared


-Nervous around others


-Poor social skills


-Probably talk to themselves or imaginary people- Possibly.


-Dependant upon themselves


-Possible Unwillingness to adapt to being with others


-Depressed
I think it varies with each person really. One could be extremely scared, quiet and depressed, whilst someone else could develop anger problems and hate.
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Some stuff there :)
They would probably go completely insane, I know I would. Or when they actually are around people again they would be really scared.
they would talk to themselves, be depressed, and in some cases forget how to communicate with others.
Maybe develop multiple personalities.


Lose most of their social skills.
A combination of depression %26amp; insanity.
very depressed very afraid of everything and completly anti social
they would be quite and maybe shocked when someone talks to them and I know because I don't reallly talk to anyone at home
wach Castaway tom hankes started talking to a vollie ball named willson
depression and they'd probably develop speech problems
Ask a hermit!!!
out of the loop.... probly very quiet and shy....