Can Loneliness Kill You?

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loneliness can't kill you. You might not be happy, but it won't kill you.
But, there have been cases of dying of grief, I know it's not what you're on about, but grief can kill if it's bad enough. The deep depression can affect your immune system and basically make you "lose the will to live". Some people have died shortly after their spouses and it happens with animals as well.

But just being lonely, that doesn't kill you.

There is a difference between being alone and lonliness. If you mean feeling lonely then it can possibly, over a long period of time, cause negative cells in you that attack your body. It depends on your mindset. A lot of older husband and wives die after their partner passes. If you have no connection or no creative output to contribute to the world then your life becomes meaningless and you die. If you have some sort of connection even if its just enjoying music then you will be okay. If you like being alone then it won't be a problem. Do you like being alone?

I've been alone most of my life, probably because I like it that way - I've always worked better individually than as a group and the only time I really socialised at all was when I was in education, I made many friends but part of me wants to distance myself from them now.

I don't mind being alone, I just hate being alone with nothing to do. And a lot of times I reach out to people who don't reach back and in return I am hurt, and I need to find something else to do to keep me busy besides trying to have relationships with other human beings.

I don't mind being alone, I just hate being alone with nothing to do. And a lot of times I reach out to people who don't reach back and in return I am hurt, and I need to find something else to do to keep me busy besides trying to have relationships with other human beings.

I spent most of my life alone & I thought I liked it. I'm kind of like Shrek in a way. I'm different from most people & lots of people never gave me a chance. They had lots of misconceptions about me & I started to believe em. I thought I liked being alone after a while because it was better than being around people. It wasn't till I met someone who seemed to connect with me & accepted me the way I was before I realized that I was not the ogre. I was NOT happy before & I felt dead inside so I guess in a way loneliness can kill but being alone is still better than being killed by people with pitchforks & torches

yeah I don't really know if I would be happier alone or with someone because I have never been with someone for very long. I'm 27 and I have only had one girlfriend and that was in high school. Most of my life, I have been completely away from other people. It is fun for a little while to be around other people but it gets boring fast.

Cant kill you but it can make you very unhappy after a while.

It can't be a direct result of death but an indirect one, yes. I mean loneliness results in ?????????? which can result in death.

+1

Party of One: The Loners' Manifesto (Amazon link) was kind of an interesting analysis of "loner" vs. "lonely" vs. being alone, from a self-proclaimed loner. Parts of it were quite good, but I simply couldn't get past the fact that the author herself really didn't seem like all that much of a loner. Still, I'd recommend it.

I have really high blood pressure, if I go into a crowd of people I get nervous and my blood pressure spikes so being around people could possably give me a stroke or heartattack.

Feeling lonely can lower immune function. Being "socially isolated" can lower immune function in a different way.

These studies, as near as I can tell, were done for NTs. It would be like keeping you from engaging in your special interest, only you're completely incapable of ever finding another or feeling any less interested.

If you desire contact, we're relatively certain that, though not fatal in itself, being alone and lonely can hasten your demise, and will at least lower your overall health.

I don't know whether there have been any controlled studies that would show whether the same effect is seen in people who for whatever reason don't want much contact. Mental illness is more common in the socially isolated, but mental illness is often the cause of isolation.

One thing I can tell you for certain is that stress is bad for your health. If socializing stresses you out, treat it like a stressor. Avoid doing so unnecessarily.

Are you lonely, or just alone? That is, is it just that you don't have a lot of friends or spend a lot of time socializing? Or do you spend a lot of time wishing you were more connected?

I'm not sure if loneliness can kill you but, I'm quite certain that going wthout human contact over a long period of time let's say years tends to create a negative impact upon your mental health as well it also plaques your physical well being too.Basically, the longer the time of lack of human contact the more chipping away of your overall health whereby one could hypothetically die at an early age..
Personally, I've felt atone and loneliness though I try to do as best as I can with coping with such for, I'd hope your able to find positive ways to help yourself with your troubles and all?

Isn't the term "introverted" supposed to express a preference? So if someone doesn't socialize at all but really, really, really wants to they are not true introverts?

I hate how preference and ability get mixed up so much when people talk about socializing. It makes me furious because I want to socialize, a lot but I don't get it and then people wind up thinking I don't want it and that makes me angry over time. It's fermenting in fact. Nobody understands or knows my loneliness. Nobody realizes I am suffering or that I am unhappy.

I even remember seeing a website where it talked about gaining social skills and it was explicitly worded with the assumption that the only way you wouldn't have good social skills is if socializing wasn't as important to you as other people. It's just as important to me, maybe even more, just more difficult! I almost destroyed my computer reading that website I got so upset!

Reading about how this affects my health only makes me more depressed, more lonely, and can't possibly be helping me to socialize more and get out of this hole I'm in! I've even thought about getting rich and then hiring lots of servants to socialize in which ever way I feel like socializing at the time. I don't care it won't be "real" the activity is what matters.

If it does kill, I wish it would hurry up.
Iam at the age where It is too late for anything to change.
All the fun things that you can do when you are on your own become completely boring after a few decades.
Apart from having to get up to go to work, I just stay in bed now, sleep as much as I can, waiting for this intolerable lonely existance to mercifully end.