Stephen King warned us of the horrors of seclusion. Of all the villains that trap the protagonists in The Shining, Gerald's Game, and In the Tall Grass, isolation is what ultimately gets them. With loneliness messing with the mind, the isolated person becomes a threat to everyone, including themselves. When the pandemic struck, we witnessed these horrors ourselves. Suicide among school children escalated to alarming rates. Reports of anxiety attacks increased , affecting people of all ages. Aside from putting a strain on our mental health, the lockdown also impaled our cognition. With hours spent on nothing but mindless internet surfing while Netflix plays in the background, your brain could gradually rot without notice. How Doing Nothing Can Affect Cognition When news of the quarantine broke, we were like hamsters left out on the street. We basically didn't know what to do. For a week or so, everything was on pause.And so, for days, we didn't do anythin