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Loneliness and Alcoholism

Loneliness does not always manifest itself as loneliness, that is, manifest ays other things. I spoke to many family members of older men who had recently retired or experienced illness and who it became clear that they were dealing with a decent amount of loneliness. And so we may walk away thinking, youno, this person struggles with anxiety, or that one with depression, or this person has anger issues or a mood disorder. And in some cases, that very well may be the fact, but it can often be the case that it is loneliness manifesting like in these different ways. What i also realize is that many of the front line issues that we read about in the papers, to day...

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