Why Loneliness Is Bad for You
Posted in Blogroll, Intelligentia, tagged Health, Loneliness, Psychology, Socialize on March 3, 2008 | No Comments »
Reposted from: http://discovermagazine.com/2008/jan/why-loneliness-is-bad-for-you
by Samir S. Patel
Feeling lonely can make you sick. Doctors have long known that loneliness is associated with cardiovascular problems, viral infections, and higher mortality. What they didn’t know is how this feeling begets illness. A study in the September issue of the online journal Genome Biology suggests that loneliness actually affects [...]
