Long hours, social isolation, and feelings of inadequacy can break even the most motivated persons among us.
Some of the most common causes are a history of mental illness in the family, social isolation, relationship and financial problems, says Wu Mingxia, a psychological expert from the Southwest University.
Social isolation is a growing epidemic — one that's increasingly recognized as having dire physical, mental and emotional consequences.
As they endure a 17-month simulation, each must prove to have the stamina, sanity and discipline to withstand the enforced isolation and the series of calculated failures created by the "sim" team.
Thanks to its isolation from modern civilization, Lake Desolation offers the ideal environment for both a nice day without a smartphone and burying a corpse.
·:《》 In What Belongs to You, an American teacher in Bulgaria encounters a captivating hustler named Mitko in a public bathroom, setting into motion an ambiguously transactional relationship marked by both tenderness and brutality, connection and isolation.
"We can spend another three years debating every single thing in isolation and we will still not get anywhere as we are not looking at all the elephants in the room, we are loo king at only one elephant — that is why we propose we do everything potentially together," he said.
But a new report in the New York Times found that it may actually be better for people to live with friends, since social isolation can lead to poorer health.
When they're not at their day jobs, a great many of the island's 330,000 inhabitants dabble in verse, including politicians, businessmen, horse breeders and scientists who study the genetic isolation of the island in pursuit of medical breakthroughs.
Environmental isolation is a serious problem; a recent study of pedestrian injuries found that three-quarters of people hurt or killed after colliding with a car or train were wearing headphones.
Six scientists have completed a yearlong Mars simulation in Hawaii, where they lived in a dome in near isolation.
Even fire brigades have been trained to inspect homes not just for fire safety but for signs of social isolation.
The Swiss government believes it is cruel to force them to live in isolation - but it doesn't just apply to fish.
The high technology brings isolation between people.
From an empirical point of view, Mr Trump's beautiful wall is no different to the splendid isolation of Boris Johnson, the leading Brexit campaigner: both are reckless illusions.
But you also have to work longer hours, usually in isolation, and potentially make less than your full-time friends.
"And to really understand the epigenetic influences of a child, we need to study the interplay between maternal and paternal effects, as opposed to considering each in isolation.
Nobody likes feeling lonely, and some recent research suggests that the ache of isolation isn't only a psychological problem; unwanted solitude impacts physical health, too.
But you also have to work longer hours, usually in isolation, and potentially make less than your full-time friends.
They do not live in isolation.
