171 - How to Make Friends and Keep Them with Best-Selling Author Eric Barker
The Verywell Mind Podcast
The Dangers of Loneliness
Loneliness is correlated with like every negative health indicator you can imagine. But lonely people don't spend any less time with other people than non-lonely people do, according to research. Solitude actually protects against loneliness; some solitude actually increases all these healt things. It's great advice to tell people who are feeling lonely to spend more time with others, but in the end we need to think about that feeling.
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