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The Importance of Loneliness
There used to be an argument in psychology that loneliness was actually an emotional fault or a defect in our DNA. Loneliness is still very much part of the human instinct and the human experience, because it serves as a self-protection and preservation mechanism. Our 20s are actually one of the times where we can feel at our lowest when it comes to this feeling. Young adults between the ages of 18 and 29 were three times more likely to feel lonely compared to older age groups.