We all need someone in this life unless of course we prefer to live our lives as a hermit. If you are one that enjoys hibernation, then you are probably more in favor of seclusion to some extent, however that is of a temporary nature. Should you wish some company, you can either surface (when you feel the need) from time to time, or get on the phone and call someone. You can take a drive to someone’s house, or you may not even have to leave you abode, because with the age of internet, you can talk to someone on the computer and see them at the same time.
But what if you are confined to a locked room with no contact of any kind, there are no windows, so you cannot see outside. You have no internet access, therefore you are cut off from the rest of the world. Someone brings you your meals (on a daily basis) but they don’t talk to you and the only communication that transpires between you and that person is the exchanging of food containers. Days go by, then weeks, months and years, you lose track of time, what day is it anyway?
Being in solitary confinement is not just like being in “time-out”, you are now alone. You are in your own little world, without any possibility of human contact, such as speech or touch. You long for someone to come by and visit, if only to remind you that there is a world out there, and some sort of civilization.