What Social Isolation May Be Doing To Our Brains

Yep……………“I am tireder and dumber, failing to mark calendar things correctly,” said a friend who’s usually a very smart writer. A patient told me that every day feels the same as the next and he’s losing any sense of order. “What day is it, anyway?” he asked on a Zoom call.

Everyone knows that humans evolved as an intensely social species and that prolonged isolation can bring about anxiety, depression and insomnia and worsen many medical problems.

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