Recent research has shown that loneliness, defined as the unfulfilled need for intimacy and closeness, is a condition that severely impacts the health and wellbeing of people, in a couple very astonishing ways… (By example, loneliness can change a person’s genetic makeup for the worse!)
This article baffled me so that I just had to share it. Read and tell me what you think! http://www.newrepublic.com/article/113176/science-loneliness-how-isolation-can-kill-you#
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My name is QuantumPhysica The Insane, but you can call me QP. I am insane, admitted to a mental hospital in Belgium, and waiting for a decent diagnosis at the moment. Once I was a physics student with goals in life and what more; now I'm simply the patient of Room 93.
Ever wondered what life is like in the psychiatric ward? I'll tell you everything you ever wanted to know...
I am... particularly twitchy of personality. But I also am genuinely interested in everything. There is nothing that doesn't interest me, really. Everything, from quantum computers to fashion and cars to traveling...
I also give advice. On anything. No taboos whatsoever.
And I make lists of things...
We as humans need the physical contact, even just good conversation. We need some type of interaction to survive
Agreed.