Cumulative loneliness and subsequent memory function
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Cumulative loneliness and subsequent memory function
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#2I absolutely believe it. Even if I manage to do the same things I normally do and avoid eating more, my depressive episodes wreck my physical health. Something about depression causes changes that no amount of healthy living can stop.
And of course every time I see these studies, I wonder just how screwed I’m going to be by the time I’m 40… XD
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#3it's a challenge that is unique to everyone's journey, to overcome loneliness.
I invested significant energy into being minimal and happy by myself. it varies with some success but it is a very personal journey.
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#4Keep in mind that loneliness is different from being alone. Loneliness is a state of mind linked to wanting human contact but feeling alone. People can be alone and not feel lonely, or they can have contact with people and still experience feelings of isolation.[1]
I believe that loneliness stems from one's inability to be friends with oneself, to enjoy one's company. This quote by Osho[2] comes to mind:
“The capacity to be alone is the capacity to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it’s not. It is an existential truth: only those people who are capable of being alone are capable of love, of sharing, of going into the deepest core of another person—without possessing the other, without becoming dependent on the other, without reducing the other to a thing, and without becoming addicted to the other. They allow the other absolute freedom, because they know that if the other leaves, they will be as happy as they are now. Their happiness cannot be taken by the other, because it is not given by the other.”
[1] Loneliness: Causes and Health Consequences — https://www.verywellmind.com/loneliness-causes-effects-and-t...
[2] The Capacity To Be Alone — http://www.arrowpsychotherapy.com/blog/capacitytobealone
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#5Keep in mind that loneliness is different from being alone. Loneliness is a state of mind linked to wanting human contact but feeling alone. People can be alone and not feel lonely, or they can have contact with people and still experience feelings of isolation.[1] I believe that loneliness stems from one's inability to be friends with oneself, to enjoy one's company. This quote by Osho[2] comes to mind: “ The capaci…
Loneliness can have multiple sources. I’m a relatively social person who also enjoys his own company. I often feel lonely around people I don’t feel a connection with. It reminds me of growing up being the only “creative” in a family who saw art of any kind as a frivolous pursuit.
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#6Keep in mind that loneliness is different from being alone. Loneliness is a state of mind linked to wanting human contact but feeling alone. People can be alone and not feel lonely, or they can have contact with people and still experience feelings of isolation.[1] I believe that loneliness stems from one's inability to be friends with oneself, to enjoy one's company. This quote by Osho[2] comes to mind: “ The capaci…
that's a wonderful quote. thanks for sharing.
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#7Keep in mind that loneliness is different from being alone. Loneliness is a state of mind linked to wanting human contact but feeling alone. People can be alone and not feel lonely, or they can have contact with people and still experience feelings of isolation.[1] I believe that loneliness stems from one's inability to be friends with oneself, to enjoy one's company. This quote by Osho[2] comes to mind: “ The capaci…
Great comment.
This reminds me of the survival reality TV show 'Alone', which is an interesting, if not contrived, experiment into how "being alone" can affect you psychologically, or not, depending on the person.
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#8I'm having a hard time taking research like this seriously after the Alzheimer's research fraud.
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#9Keep in mind that loneliness is different from being alone. Loneliness is a state of mind linked to wanting human contact but feeling alone. People can be alone and not feel lonely, or they can have contact with people and still experience feelings of isolation.[1] I believe that loneliness stems from one's inability to be friends with oneself, to enjoy one's company. This quote by Osho[2] comes to mind: “ The capaci…
This is a great point for those worried about the impact on themselves.
Given the structure of the study I wonder whether the potential relationship between extroversion and loneliness as reported was explored. Ie do introverts report loneliness less in general?
In one example of extroverts, a person could be accustomed to interacting with important others socially and loses them. This loss of regular experience of memory recall generated by many social interactions could potentially lead to under practice of memory functions generally. It also might make it more likely they would report loneliness.
Some similar studies exist for removing elderly from their homes and/or purging them of their “unnecessary stuff.” Again here the memory function triggered by their regular visual stimulation of memories associated with their stuff may be sustaining those brain functions.
I think instead of trying to associate bad feelings with bad outcomes we should be asking what combinations of individual tendencies and situations produce those bad feelings, and how might those bad feelings be linked to very real experiential losses that might be sustained relatively easily.
One mitigation might be to record the elderly’s persons friends and/or house/belongings and make them available in VR.
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#10Keep in mind that loneliness is different from being alone. Loneliness is a state of mind linked to wanting human contact but feeling alone. People can be alone and not feel lonely, or they can have contact with people and still experience feelings of isolation.[1] I believe that loneliness stems from one's inability to be friends with oneself, to enjoy one's company. This quote by Osho[2] comes to mind: “ The capaci…
But in this particular case I bet it is the actual state of being alone that is the cause of mental decline, the mechanism being that one is literally not using all the parts of the brain that one developed to socialize with others.