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The Virus: Splendid isolation with Jon Ronson

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The Impact of Self Isolation on Mental Health

The World Health Organization has released a set of guidelines on the mental health impact. But how will we cope when we have no physical connection to the outside world? I was just saying to my wife this morning, like, thank God for the internet. It's going to keep us connected. There is sort of an anxiety in isolation too. Like being isolated in a way that you don't want to be - it's like staring into the abyss. The cure for shame is empathy. And so the more you empathize with other people, and they do with you, the better it is.

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