Can Loneliness Kill You?

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饿的时候食物比较香?看到爱的人的照片反应比较大?看来你也是个孤独患者。

生活在诺大的城市,却找不到自己的归属,每每下班回到家中都陷入孤独寂寞的情绪。

这是多少逐梦人的内心独白,但万万没想到——孤独对人的影响并不止于心理。

据科学家研究,孤独能使心脏病,中风的患病率增高。

看样子,以后的孤独还会伴随着恐惧…… o(TヘTo)

Our planet may be more connected than ever, but loneliness has doubled in America since the 80's with more than 40% of adults saying they are lonely.

So should you be worried if you feel the same?

Can loneliness. . . kill you?

Loneliness is a psychological mechanism designed to motivate you to seek out social interactions, but it's highly subjective.

If you feel lonely, then you are lonely.

And it doesn't necessarily mean you're a loner or have no friends, it just means that the social interactions that are necessary to you are not being met.

We often think of loneliness as something that affects the elderly, but a recent study found that young people aged 16-24 felt lonely more than any other group of adults.

In one painful study, scientists found that being lonely made cold symptoms worse.

Hundreds of healthy people completed a loneliness scale test and then were given nasal drops containing the common cold virus - blegh!

At this point, these poor sick induced participants were quarantined in hotel rooms for 5 days and those who reported being more lonely prior to the test also reported more significant cold symptoms.

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