Taking Needed Steps to Decrease Your Isolation
An article from LifeHacker
There are a lot of perks to going it alone sometimes, but true isolation is becoming a deadly epidemic in the U.S., especially for middle-aged men. But the loneliness that often comes hand-in-hand with the trials of modern living don’t have to be a death sentence.
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A link to the original LifeHacker article on isolation and loneliness.Social isolation and loneliness have been associated with major negative health effects in study after study, leading some researchers to consider long-term isolation to be just as bad for longevity as smoking cigarettes. There are also links to increased risk of cardiovascular disease, stroke, and Alzheimer’s. And one recent study found that merely living alone can increase the risk of premature death by a whopping 6%. Surgeon General Vivek H. Murthy even goes as far as saying that isolation is