No one was sitting in the seat next to me, which added to my isolation.

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Despite the loans, going to business school was actually the best thing that could have happened to me because it broke my isolation.

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''I'm extremely worried about the long-term effects of extreme isolation on my brother.

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So there you are, do not take my angry view in isolation.

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But if I'm honest with myself, my self-imposed isolation from other moms has left me feeling a little alone in the new-mommy experience.

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This helped me overcome my feelings of inadequacy and isolation.

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The burden of poverty and this bitter taste of helplessness and isolation sort of branded on my heart forever the questions that still drive me.

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There was a time when I might have speculated on the cause but then I learned that rather than continuously update my priors I should instead consider every piece of evidence in isolation and adhere strictly to the absolutely non-arbitrary standard of a 95% confidence interval.

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When I first came home, there were months of isolation where I was too proud and too ashamed to talk about my feelings -- a downward spiral that almost ended in suicide.

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Recently, I met a man who had spent more than five years in isolation at a prison in the Boston suburb of Walpole, Massachusetts, not far from my home.

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My hope is that my story might serve as a beacon of hope for people grappling with their own inner demons in silence and isolation.

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