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There's a specific kind of loneliness that only hits people who are surrounded by others but known by none of them - Silicon Canals

Existential isolation is the recognition that no matter how close you get to another human being, there remains a gap between your inner experience and theirs that can never be fully bridged. Psychologist Irvin Yalom wrote about it extensively - this sense that we each enter the world alone and leave it alone, and that even in our most intimate moments, we are fundamentally separate.

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There is a specific kind of loneliness that only hits people who are surrounded by others but understood by none of them - Silicon Canals

Existential isolation—feeling fundamentally unseen despite social proximity—causes distress independent of social contact quantity and differs from traditional loneliness.

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There's a specific kind of loneliness that only hits people who are surrounded by others but known by none of them - Silicon Canals

There is a specific kind of loneliness that only hits people who are surrounded by others but understood by none of them - Silicon Canals

#existential-isolation
#existential-isolation