Can extreme loneliness and isolation lead to schizophrenia?

can extreme loneliness and isolation lead to schizophrenia?

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Solitary confinement people tend to go crazy, so...

No, schizophrenics can't feel lonely, since they can always just talk to themselves if they want some company.

So loneliness and isolation does fuck with your brain, not as bad as actual solitary confiment. Is that what youre trying to say? I mean things arent binary...

>I mean things arent binary
Yes they are. You're just asking the wrong question, so it doesn't result in a definitive yes or no answer.

OP said extreme loneliness and isolation, what better example of that is there? The long answer is that it depends on character, genetics, environment, etc... Some people cope with that kind of treatment by getting lost in worlds of their own creation and go on to live productive lives after captivity. Others break almost to the point of uselessness.

Isolation is apparently worse for your health than smoking a pack of cigarettes a day, leads to increased risk of heart problems, Alzheimers, causes permanent brain atrophy etc.

no, it could lead to a psychotic episode but chances are if you're going to get schizophrenia environment only effects onset and severity
t. schizophrenic

I hope so, schizophrenia and mental illness runs in my family, I guess time will tell

Yep, happened to my brother. Dropped out of uni and became a shutin for a year and a half, he lost his mind. Though he had a vaccine just before all of this, I wonder if that could have been the cause. He's autistic too, I think they're more vulnerable to develop psychosis if thrown out of their routine for years.

i'm pretty sure
sometimes i think im so dumb i must be crazy
this might be the dumbest awesome cringe dude thing ive said but i feel this way

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>Am autistic and have been a shuttin for 7+ years

Ruh roh

>Though he had a vaccine just before all of this, I wonder if that could have been the cause.
Please don't tell me you're an anti-vaxxer
Please tell me it is a joke and that Jow Forums is safe from that scourge

It's more around the other way. People with schizophrenia or going through the prodromal phase that can lead to schizophrenia tend to isolate themselves. But isolation and such really isn't good for the mind regardless.

I'm more worried about your learning difficulties than your brother tbhqhwy

How are you holding up? Everyone is different with autism, some are more mentally strong and can shoulder the burden of social isolation longer than others.

even a moderate amount of isolation will fuck you up for a long time, humans are not made to live by themselves.

>tfw just now realize that I talk to myself out loud sometimes and this is not normal
>have elaborate conversations with my myself in my mind
>years of isolation have done this to me
I don't think I'm a schizo but I'm definitely a werido

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Severe social isolation in high school led me to make a tulpa at the age of 15 and my favorite hobby is just building up world for a novel I'll probably never write
Twelve years later, I'm still in a romantic and sexual relationship with my tulpa, soon to be my wife

So yeah, you know sensory deprevation? It's kind of the same thing. Social isolation means no social stimuli so your brain just makes its own stimuli to make up for the lack of real stimuli. You go insane if you don't contain it. I contain it within my fantasy world and my tulpa.

I have not interacted with anyone irl other than my dad and mom in over 10 years now and I am fine. Be warned though going this long will make you not want to talk to anybody anymore. Whenever I am at the market getting whatever and someone tries to talk to me I get really annoyed by them.

I get panic attacks and am very paranoid of other people. Other than that I try to keep as busy as possible. Oh, it's also impossible to connect with other people including family now.

I hope so. i want to completely lose my mind. rationality is overrated

Maybe. Getting tossed aside by all the people who claimed they cared about me definitely makes me feel like I'm going crazy in my own head.

I'm just speculating here, he also became seriously ill after the vaccine. It's just weird that he developed the worst case of schizophrenia, even to the point where he was probably going to murder everyone in the house - he wrote holy names on kitchen knives and said he was speaking to spirits. He attacked me physically out of nowhere when he was confronted about it all, but failed and was sent to the ward.
awh thanks user, any sort of regard about me feels affectionate enough for myself

Severe adverse immune reactions to vaccines are not unheard of, but a worsening of neurological symptoms is pretty rare. There's a link between neuroinflammation and certain disorders (major depressive, OCD), but that's still being researched.

However, the usual symptoms after a vaccination (sore injection site, fatigue etc.) might have been a trigger for a worsening of his mental state. I know I'm extremely cranky and abusive if I have constipation, to the point where I lost friends.

Stay strong, just keep working towards what motivates you, and learn to work with yourself in situations, even if it's painful you'll figure it out hopefully. I don't mean that you should throw yourself out there, just be prepared if the worst happens that's all. It's terrifying to be confronted by normies when you have nothing to say to them.

Yeah I'm pretty sure it may have caused an inflammatory effect on his brain - if it actually did. It's almost like his IQ dropped by 20 as well. I just don't know how people can be so submissive to the system, probably 70% of the medicines they sell people to suppress their problems can be solved all by natural means. Again I'm not saying the vaccine is the definite cause, but may have been just a factor.

Thanks user. I really do hope something good might happen one day, I am working on it.