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Loneliness
How to cope with or defeat loneliness
Why do we become lonely?
The dangers of (chronic) loneliness
Who is lonely?
What is loneliness?
• Connect with a human friend if you can
- Abuse or rejection
- Everybody
- Mental health disorders
- Alcoholism
- Suicide ideation
• Seek relief from a non-human "friend"
- Inability to fit in
- Death, divorce or heartbreak
• Get in contact with other lonely people
Short-lived loneliness
Chronic loneliness
- Social media
• Help someone in need
- Physically alone
- Social isolation
The good thing about loneliness is that…
• Be patient
It prepares us for more loneliness
- With strangers
- missing deep connection with others
• Do something creative, no matter how simple
• Sing
- Increased risk of dementia by 64%
- Lack of empathy
- Sleeping disorders (insomnia)
Illustration by: C. R. Sasikumar – found at the Indian Express
(don't embrace it, but learn to cope)
Sources:
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/anxiety-files/201702/living-loneliness - Living with loneliness
http://www.thefitindian.com/negative-effects-of-loneliness-on-health/ - Effects of loneliness
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/turning-straw-gold/201612/10-things-try-when-you-re-feeling-lonely - What to do if you're feeling lonely
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hER0Qp6QJNU- Simon Sinek on Millennials in the Workplace
http://fortune.com/2016/06/22/loneliness-is-a-modern-day-epidemic/