‘Self isolate’, ‘self identify’ etc.

[AgentProvocateur]

When did we stop ‘identifying as’ or ‘isolating ourselves’ and start self-identifying and self-isolating?

I have been looking at this and hoping someone would come along and give an answer better than mine, but nobody has.

Good question. It seems to be the fashionable way to speak these days. (I have been making efforts to refer to people isolating themselves wherever possible). As for those who say, 'I'm self-isolating myself,' I have to bite my tongue.

I agree. It is somehow representative of our 'self' orientated view of our place society?