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Minimal Human Contact - Side Effects?

I understand this is a broad question but what kind of side effects would you encounter from distancing yourself from society for a really long period of time?

I guess an example would be if you were in prison and you were put in solitary confinment with nothing but books for 10 years what sort of state of mind would you come out with. (For the sake of argument the books are scientefic, non-fiction).
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I just finished a fantastic documentary by National Geographic on solitary confinement. Many of those guys were in Ad Seg for a decade or more. 

Basically what happened was the development of anti-social behaviour, anxiety, fear, etc. One inmate being interviewed through glass noted it was his first sit-down conversation with someone in 4 years. 

Another man said he was released after 8 years of SC and snapped the first week out because the paranoia was so intense he feared his life. He attacked an innocent guy in a grocery store who he believed was following him... and promptly returned to SC in prison.

They showed an experiment on a rat that was kept in a SC situation for just 2 weeks - when it was let out to roam free, it scaled the walls only as if it were afraid of the big empty room even though there was clearly no threat.