According to a Scientific American article written by Lydia Denworth, Loneliness hurts and the COVID19 pandemic lockdown is inducing this loneliness which ultimately is affecting peoples’ mental health.
Loneliness An Alarm Bell?It is psychologically distressing and so physically unhealthy that being lonely increases the likelihood of an earlier death by 26 percent. But the feeling may serve a purpose, writes Lydia.
Psychologists theorize it hurts so much because, like hunger and thirst,...
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