If a person is totally alone and gets no "love" from another, will it make them emotionally "sick"?

Question

Sometimes people find that they are all alone in in life, no spouse, family, or close friends. How will this starvation of human contact effect them? Will they become mentaly ill? (If this situation lasts for years and years?)

Answer 1

Solitude of a person means seclusion or isolation, i.e. lack of contact with other people. It may stem from deliberate choice, contagious disease, disfiguring features or repulsive personal habits, or circumstances of employment or situation (see castaway).

Short-term solitude is often valued as a time when one may work, think or rest without being disturbed. It may be desired for privacy.

Long-term solitude is often seen as undesirable, causing loneliness or reclusion, resulting from inability to establish relationships. However, for some people solitude is not depressing. Still others (e.g. monks) regard long-term solitude as a means of spiritual enlightenment.

A distinction can be made between physical and mental seclusion. People may seek physical seclusion to remove distractions and make it easier to concentrate, reflect, or meditate. However, it's not the end in itself and once a certain capacity to resist distractions is achieved, people become less sensitive to distractions and more capable of maintaining mindfulness and staying inwardly absorbed and concentrated. Some highly developed people (e.g. some Buddhist monks) can maintain very high concentration levels almost regardless of external circumstances. Such people, unless on a mission of helping others, don't seek any interaction with the external physical world. Their mindfulness is their world, at least ostensibly.

Symptoms from isolation often include anxiety, sensory illusions, or even distortions of time and perception. Young humans tend to adapt better to isolation than older humans do.

Loneliness is an emotional state in which a person experiences a powerful feeling of emptiness and isolation. Loneliness is more than just the feeling of wanting company or wanting to do something with another person. Loneliness is a feeling of being cut off, disconnected from, and alienated towards, other people. The lonely person may find it difficult or even impossible to have any form of meaningful human contact. Lonely people often experience a subjective sense of inner emptiness or hollowness, with feelings of separation or isolation from the world.

Symptoms of Loneliness:

* Believing that "everyone else" has friends
* Feeling embarrassed and self-conscious
* Being in a crowd but not feeling part of the crowd
* Feeling shy and scared of others
* Experiencing low self-esteem
* Feeling angry, defensive and critical
* Feeling socially inadequate and socially de-skilled
* Being convinced there is something wrong with you
* Feeling disconnected and alienated from your surroundings
* Feeling anxious and sad because you believe that no one knows how miserable and isolated you feel
* Losing your capacity to be assertive; feeling "invisible"
* Feeling reluctant to attempt to change, or try new things
* Feeling "empty", depressed, or even contemplating suicide.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loneliness

Answer 2

I doubt it. Checking the divorce rate in America, I would have to agree that man and woman are not meant to live together. It is an unnatural state of living.
You can make yourself mentally ill over not having cookies, if you want to do it. Many people have lived for a good long time without "love" from another person. "starvation of human contact" ? Where does this person live, on the moon? I think the person you are talking about just needs to grow up.

Answer 3

I think it depends on the person and the situation. I do think that a person could get physically ill from a lack of human contact over a long period of time. Some people are loners and do fine on their own, but an emotional, loving person needs to feel those emotions returned. It can certainly cause depression and anxiety in people who are alone also.

Answer 4

If this situation lasts for years，he will be a certain extent ill.What the most important is whether he feel indisposed.He could do some something to be well if he want to live better,to find a person to love,to make a good friend cannily,to take part in a significative activity...

A method to escape depression is take a walk every day,ten minutes or more,I see it in a psychics book.

The last ,have KFC with your good friend or lover is healthier than that have apples lonely.

Answer 5

Well that depends upon that person. There are people who love to be alone and enjoy that pretty much. On the other hand there are some people who have no choice but to be lonely. For the second type of people it seems good to be alone but with the passage of time they get fed up of this and get kind of sick in different ways. For instance they would want to torture themselves or other people. In another example....they might become too lonely and wouldn't want to talk to anyone ever and stuff like this.

Answer 6

If they obsess over it and make it their duty to torture themselves with "nobody loves me", they'd probably lose their mind before long. I used to be like that in the 3 years i didn't date. I'm always on an emotional roller coaster, and prone to fits, depression, you name it. What they should do is either find something interesting to do with their spare time (so they won't dwell on the fact that they are lonely); OR find somebody to love them. A failed relationship is better than a non-relationship, most of the time anyway. Or maybe they can do both. Nobody just up and give you love. You have to go out and look for it. Start socializing, dating, whatever. If, on the other hand, you sit at home hoping someone would come around looking for you (or WORSE God would bring them to you), you are setting yourself up for a life of disappointment and lonliness!

Answer 7

Even if one has family and a couple close friends, they too can feel totally alone in the world.

It effects everyone differenty, some like being alone, some choose to be alone, some have no choose but to be alone. Some can just deal with it, while some others just can't.

Answer 8

There is a spiritual answer and there is a carnal answer. Spiritually one is never alone; nor lonely, for they have the Triune God.

Through much experience, one has found that if you are not careful society will dictate your life; society will try to put one into a situation where that person feels totally lonely for human contact to destroy that person; I have found society tries to isolate a person when that person does not conform to what society thinks you should do and, how you should act. One has found that certain people believe in some sort of power, and they want that power and they want others to be under their power or else they as a group will attempt to make that persons life misarable, they do it through punishment; like your parents did; but that should have been a good experience. Now when it comes to ones adult life; a certain group of people use that parent child relationship to bring people under their power. Yet the people doing it are ignorant, stupid and, the words one may use to describe these people just should not be used over the internet. Bottom line they are misguided people, and they need help, a group of people cannot control others, they are working againist nature and God Himself, because they are placing themselves in the position of God; that should not be. The bible is clear, "what is done in the dark shall come to the light". what this group of people are trying to do cannot last; and all they have done and are doing is going to backfire. There are some laws that are set in place that no one is able to change: 1. you shall reap what you sow. 2. vengence is mine saith the Lord. Yes these people think they are getting away with what they are doing, they are not; I want to send this message to those trying to control others hopefully it will help them. No this, God allows you to continue; giving you time to repent; and if you do not, you will be in trouble maybe more than you may be able to get yourselves out of. 1. God shall bring every work into judgement with every secret thing whether it be good, or whether it be evil. I for one do not want to see the wrath of God on my life. Also this group of people should know that Gods' vengence shall be here in our universe on our planet; and also if this group of people continues in what they are doing and not repent; their end shall be the lake that burns with fire. One hopes this helps. So if one finds themselves getting in a place of no love or being along or lonely, caused by society; just put your total faith, hope and love in the Triune God; and trust in and rely on the Triune God. That is what I am doing; because this alone and no love from other people is emotionally draining; that is what is happening to me; but I am more than a conquerer through Him that loves me > Jesus Christ. Also this group must know that when they receive their just rewards it will be worst than what they have tried to dish out.

Answer 9

Not unless you are totally solitaire -with no human contact at all. Say perhaps, stranded on an island.
However "love-less" a person is, if still in close contact with mankind will not cause any "sickness". Perhaps the ocassional wave of loneliness.

Answer 10

I remember a story from law school. The story began with the description of a young child's life of being locked in a closet and ignored and ultimately abused (cigarette put out on his skin, whippings with electric cords, etc...). As you read the story your heart was turned inside out for the child.
Toward the end of the story, you found this was the childhood of a sadistic murderer. The writer asked whether the murderer should be executed. It was a very difficult decision. What would you vote?

Answer 11

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