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How to Stay Healthy and Avoid Loneliness
Viveg found that people were surprisingly willing to talk openly about their struggles with things like obesity and addiction, but loneliness not so much. There was a sense that if you admitted you were lonely, that somehow you were not likable, or that you were deficient in some way. The evidence suggests that we also need a variety of social interactions to stay healthy and avoid loneliness. Some of those can be shallow and fleeting; others need to be lasting and more intimate.