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S2E03: Your Mind on Loneliness & Social Connection, with Dr. Elisa Baek

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The Relationship Between Social Networks and Loneliness

Loneliness is as predictive of early death of smoking or even more so but it seems like the people who are also pushing themselves into the center of the network are also the ones that are most sensitive. I think if you're like hypersensitive and you need a lot of friends all the time of people's affirmation I think that could not be super good for your well-being either. Where is the balance? The narrative can sometimes be super simple. It's like have more friends or less likely to be lonely but we also need to start looking at some of the nuances of this.

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