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Loneliness a 'bigger health risk than smoking or obesity'
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Re: Loneliness a 'bigger health risk than smoking or obesity'
#12>One woman who felt isolated in lockdown said loneliness was now a bigger health risk than smoking or obesity. So, this is the source of the article. No reference to any single study, despite all the research available on the topic. What a piece of anecdotical crap this article is. >Pre-pandemic, the Royal College of General Practitioners Wales called for all practices to have their own social prescriber in a bid to…
It is stated in the article. The first voxpop is from a Mind Cymru project. They are a Welsh non-profit working with mental health. The other one from Royal College of General Practitioners Wales. You can find their oppinion here[0] and
the study with the specific 50% figure here[1].
I think you are overselling how little information is provided. Taking in account the venue and audience it is still easy to look up more specific information with what the article provides.
[0] https://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/docs/default-source/members/facult... [1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30007359/
Re: Loneliness a 'bigger health risk than smoking or obesity'
#13Shameless plug, I'm trying to build an app to hopefully help with this. A platform for platonic friend making based on shared interests. I find that it's very hard to meet and connect with like minded people regardless of where you live. https://trypoppin.com/
Nice. I understand what you're trying to say with that title on your website, but I kind of disagree. Just because you have online friends doesn't mean that they're not "real" friends.
Re: Loneliness a 'bigger health risk than smoking or obesity'
#14>One woman who felt isolated in lockdown said loneliness was now a bigger health risk than smoking or obesity. So, this is the source of the article. No reference to any single study, despite all the research available on the topic. What a piece of anecdotical crap this article is. >Pre-pandemic, the Royal College of General Practitioners Wales called for all practices to have their own social prescriber in a bid to…
I was shocked that they made the titular quote sound like it was coming from NHS.
I'm aware of negative health effects, but mostly in older people: https://www.cdc.gov/aging/publications/features/lonely-older...
Re: Loneliness a 'bigger health risk than smoking or obesity'
#15I lost all of my social network during 2020. Being almost 40 and with the current situation still in progress, I don't even know where to start. I have no social contact outside of remote work and some sport activities.
How did that happen? My friend circle reduced a lot due to my countries restrictions. You could only meet one person, so it was often the same people that paired up. I guess a lot of people were left out of that.
I'm very grateful I had an SO and two good friends I could often meet up with.
Re: Loneliness a 'bigger health risk than smoking or obesity'
#16"enable me to get on a path out of loneliness"
The whole article is about loneliness and it was not clear for me what they mean by 'loneliness'?
How it is defined?
What we can consider as already a 'loneliness' and when we can say it is not yet there?
Re: Loneliness a 'bigger health risk than smoking or obesity'
#17>One woman who felt isolated in lockdown said loneliness was now a bigger health risk than smoking or obesity. So, this is the source of the article. No reference to any single study, despite all the research available on the topic. What a piece of anecdotical crap this article is. >Pre-pandemic, the Royal College of General Practitioners Wales called for all practices to have their own social prescriber in a bid to…
I've noticed that the BBC has been churning out a good number of "loneliness epidemic" articles for a few years now (since before covid). I haven't noticed this trend in any other publications that I read.
I have no idea why they've been doing this. To be honest, I haven't looked further into it, and maybe I'm just noticing a pattern where there is none. But it's a thought that's crossed my mind a few times now.
Re: Loneliness a 'bigger health risk than smoking or obesity'
#18Shameless plug, I'm trying to build an app to hopefully help with this. A platform for platonic friend making based on shared interests. I find that it's very hard to meet and connect with like minded people regardless of where you live. https://trypoppin.com/
This could do with a sign up so I can get a reminder when it launches. I am guaranteed to forget about it by then otherwise.
do you think email sign up would be preferrable? I was thinking it's better to get people to follow the Instagram account so I can reach them when I launch
Re: Loneliness a 'bigger health risk than smoking or obesity'
#19"enable me to get on a path out of loneliness" The whole article is about loneliness and it was not clear for me what they mean by 'loneliness'? How it is defined? What we can consider as already a 'loneliness' and when we can say it is not yet there?
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loneliness
Loneliness is an unpleasant emotional response to perceived isolation. Loneliness is also described as social pain—a psychological mechanism which motivates individuals to seek social connections.
It really wasn't hard to find.
Re: Loneliness a 'bigger health risk than smoking or obesity'
#20Shameless plug, I'm trying to build an app to hopefully help with this. A platform for platonic friend making based on shared interests. I find that it's very hard to meet and connect with like minded people regardless of where you live. https://trypoppin.com/
Nice. I understand what you're trying to say with that title on your website, but I kind of disagree. Just because you have online friends doesn't mean that they're not "real" friends.
in my opinion, having friends that you can meet up with and hang out in person >>>>>>> online friends. it's a night and day difference. you can still feel lonely if you talk to a bunch of people online but don't meet anyone face to face. but to each their own.