I come to my Ranch in Costa Rica precisely to isolate.
The only voices I hear are my cat and dog. They're the only ones I speak to as well.
On my current med cocktail it's easy to be active on this site and write emls to friends in CA.
When it's real bad I can't go online or answer the phone in CA.
But here I have 12 1/2 acres of beautiful trees, food growing, monkeys, exotic birds.
Besides my pets.
So I'm communing with nature.
Yes. It's a depression bipolar coping mechanism.