"Building walls is just isolating oneself," he said.
Other strategies seemed more damaging, like isolating oneself from friends and family who might detect the substance use, hiding or denying the pregnancy, timing prenatal appointments so that persistent substance use would not show up in drug tests, skipping some prenatal visits or avoiding prenatal care altogether.
Instead of isolating oneself, Rego said, socializing and seeking support from family, friends and counselors is usually the fastest way to heal.
He emphasizes the importance of saying no, not isolating oneself, and keeping in mind the fact that self-care is a positive thing.
Writing in 1988, Ramiz Alia reiterated the Albanian view that, "The revisionist current most dangerous to the world communist movement has been and still is Soviet revisionism" and that, "To oppose the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, which had great political and theoretical authority, meant to isolate oneself, at least for a time, from most of the communist parties of the world.
Lack of social integration, such as not interacting with others or isolating oneself from former friends, can cause social loneliness.
Isolating oneself from social activity or being withdrawn.
Watch out for Social withdrawal is the behavioral tendency to isolate oneself from peers.
Social withdrawal is the behavioral tendency to isolate oneself from peers.
This does not imply isolating oneself from any future emotional involvement, but rather to proceed with caution.
