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Tollorin
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17 Apr 2016, 7:37 am

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Social isolation is as potent a cause of early death as smoking 15 cigarettes a day; loneliness, research suggests, is twice as deadly as obesity. Dementia, high blood pressure, alcoholism and accidents – all these, like depression, paranoia, anxiety and suicide, become more prevalent when connections are cut. We cannot cope alone.

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/oct/14/age-of-loneliness-killing-us
That's depressing. I have only a few social contact; mostly family members that I only see once to three months, except for a aunt coming once by four weeks to help me cleaning. Guess I will die young. :( Though it might be for the best, considering how the world is evolving.



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17 Apr 2016, 8:25 am

Yes being alone sucks allot but I doubt that's true. I don't trust any article that's that dramatic. And who knows about the "study" it refers to.



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17 Apr 2016, 3:08 pm

Gaviamer wrote:
Yes being alone sucks allot but I doubt that's true. I don't trust any article that's that dramatic. And who knows about the "study" it refers to.

I certainly agree. A lot of the article was laced with biased and emotionally charged language that wasn't very objectively oriented. I think that people are getting disconnected with one another, but there are still several factors that can go into dying at a young age, and "social isolation" (probably) doesn't account for well over half of it - it's just another brick in the all, as a clever young man once said.


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17 Apr 2016, 3:31 pm

Tollorin: I haven't read the study, but I do believe that relationships play an integral role in living and enjoying one's life. I mean, if you really think about it, when a person dies, he/she can't take any money or stuff he's accumulated; however, what you can take are the memories that you've created with others. Well, that's what I'd like to believe anyways.


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17 Apr 2016, 7:13 pm

Not sure if the effects are as dramatic as they say in the article (I'd like to read a scientific report on the study). But it does have a point; humans are social animals. Even if us autistic folks aren't naturally wired for social interaction, we still need it like everyone else.