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Chronic loneliness is not a diagnosable mental health condition, but it can affect your emotional and physical health. Here’s everything you need to know.
Older adults who experience chronic loneliness face a 56% higher risk of stroke than those who are not lonely, according to a new study from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Surgeon ...
Research shows chronic loneliness has also been linked to brain changes that affect emotional processing and social perception. This is what makes it so difficult for people to overcome chronic ...
Loneliness can spread through social groups like a disease. The mechanism for this involves the maladaptive cognition that often results from chronic loneliness. If a man loses a friend for whatever reason, this may increase his loneliness, resulting in him developing maladaptive cognition such as excessive neediness or suspicion of other friends.
Emotional despair refers to feelings of sadness, irritability, loneliness and apathy and may partly impede the process of creating and nourishing interpersonal relationships. The term behavioural despair describes risky, reckless and self-destructive acts reflecting little to no consideration of the future (such as self-harm , reckless driving ...
Prior research has linked loneliness and isolation to sleep problems, inflammation and other symptoms in young adults, and linked them to a shorter life span, insomnia, depression and other ...
One of the symptoms of BPD is an intense fear of emotional abandonment. Borderline personality disorder, as outlined in the DSM-5, manifests through nine distinct symptoms, with a diagnosis requiring at least five of the following criteria to be met: [32] Frantic efforts to avoid real or imagined emotional abandonment.
Loneliness may increase the risk of strokes through three general pathways: physiological, behavioral, and psychosocial. There are many reasons people may be lonely, some of which are internal and ...