Victims who do not reveal their rapes to others, whether due to shame or to the expectation that they will not be believed, experience profound isolation and lack of support; and indeed, many who do report their rapes are disbelieved or blamed by friends, family, and/or police.
She considered herself peculiarly afflicted, and it is not an exaggeration to say that she struggled to think of anyone, besides perhaps James Baldwin and Jesus, who had experienced the profound isolation and loneliness she now knew to be the one and only true reality of this world.
At a time when the prevalence of mental health problems in academia is only starting to be identified – and we really are just beginning to scratch the surface – we need to start talking about the sense of profound isolation experienced by many doctoral researchers.
What I have come to know is a profound isolation and loneliness that so many individuals experience at the end of life.
This more profound isolation may register, at first, as paralysis.
The Bechdels lived in this museum in a state of profound isolation.
Given the North's profound isolation, some analysts question how much more damage sanctions can do.
The inmates said they were subjected to profound isolation, cells encrusted with fecal matter, urine and food, and malfunctioning toilets.
Perversely, then, the prisoners who can't handle profound isolation are the ones who are forced to remain in it.
Perhaps no issue looms larger for the startup ecosystem than its profound isolation.
The relative marginality of China studies reflected the profound isolation and impoverishment of Mao's Middle Kingdom.
