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Beat Your Isolation Loneliness

The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos

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Social Connection Can Help You Recover From Stress and Anxiety

Lonely is bad, but the flipside is that social connection can heal us in these incredible ways. When people feel as though there are loved ones around them, they are able to bounce back more quickly from those stressers. There is even evidence from the brain that when people go through pain, for instance, like getting zapped with a painful electric shock, that they experience those shocks as less painful if theyare holding the hand of somebody who cares for them.

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