The harms of isolation makes the patient's mental illness worse. The mental patients disconnection from the outside world prevents them to learn to adapt to society which gradually worsened their illnesses. The harms of mental illness includes the changing of lifestyles and communication. In Ken Kesey’s novel “One flew over the cuckoo's nest” the patients are limited by Nurse Ratched on the communication that they may receive from the outside world. When the patients ask nurse Ratched if they can do something nurse Ratched tells them no immediately so the only communication they have is between each other. In Hawthorne's novel Emily was unable to communicate with society. Emily’s dad wouldn’t let her go outside in public especially go out
