Quarantine, including imposed self-isolation, tend to traumatize people, much as solitary confinement in prison does.

The two are quite similar. In the latter, guards forcibly keep someone away from everyone else. In the former, they compel someone to avoid everyone else.

There is another version, shunning, in which someone is compelled to avoid everyone else because they reject per. I think that traumatizes people too.

The article says that people can withstand quarantine better if they understand clearly the reasons for the quarantine system and when it will end.