Madness and Hallucinations: Isolation, Loneliness, and the Human Need for Others

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The brilliant 20th century philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre famously ended his play No Exit with the line, “Hell is Other People.” It’s not exactly infrequent that other people can get on our nerves and reaffirm the truth of this statement, at least a little bit. The social life of a human being is an extremely important facet of the human experience. While…