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2012-10-07 12:59 4003769 Anonymous Loneliness-Health risk (divided.jpg 1763x666 567kB)
http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/200308/the-dangers-loneliness Should we worry?

2 min later 4003791 Anonymous
author is a woman, so no, don't take it to heart

5 min later 4003827 Anonymous
>>4003769 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loneliness#Effects Yet this shit even invaded the Wiki. I assume one should worry only if his loneliness TROUBLES him, but as someone aiming for lifelong cocoon mode, this makes me slightly uncomfortable.

16 min later 4003947 Anonymous
Well, guess this is it, my threads die as fast as my conversations with people in real life. Guess I'll have to buy an anti-loneliness pill or something...

16 min later 4003954 Anonymous
>>4003947 i did my best at contributing anon. It was just not enough

21 min later 4004001 Anonymous (1343789735473.jpg 350x312 43kB)
Don't. Even. Care. Seriously. 'Tis even good. Life ending early means less suffering.

23 min later 4004014 Anonymous (1348801039247.gif 500x261 771kB)
>>4003954 Thanks, anyway these studies say that the effect of loneliness on blood pressure and suck is the negative equivalent of exercise, so I guess being an exercise addict, I'll be a normal old persona at some point.

27 min later 4004055 Anonymous
Some people don't understand that being with people doesn't equal "A lack of loneliness" the same way being without company of others doesn't equal "loneliness" I do agree that loneliness could be dangerous to someone's mental health based on what loneliness is to them. I'm a very social person and I can make friends really easily, but sometimes I just "retreat" into solitude for a few months and everyone acts like I must be depressed or sad or feel alone - I don't. I only feel alone when I'm not alone by choice, on the days where I'm trying to find someone to do something with and I can't find anyone. On the reverse side, if I just want to be at home playing vidya but I'm stuck out with friends, I feel lonely. I always avoid odd-numbered groups unless there's more then 5 people though, there's no preventing that feeling of loneliness if you're the third wheel or if you're a single person hanging out with two couples or something, no matter what your views on "being alone" are, it always sucks.

28 min later 4004066 Anonymous
>friendship is a lot like food Holy fuck stopped reading right there.

30 min later 4004081 Anonymous
well op, I read it and as a recluse of 3 years now I can see it having some validity >had a large social circle of friends that I grew up with from grade school until high school >happy, was out almost every single day/weekend doing stuff with people. >move up state after senior year due to financial issues >been here since the end of 09 (21 now) have not made a single friend, dont leave the house, cant even hold a normal conversation with people who arent my immediate family anymore. >once a year Ill go back down and revisit all of my old friends for about a week >Even they said ive become a lot less talkative and more distant than I used to be >since moving Ive developed hypochondria (could be related to loneliness idk) oh well ;_;

34 min later 4004130 Anonymous
Psychology today does not cite their sources, and even if you email them and ask for sources they tell you they don't remember them or know where they are. I'm a psychology major but I've grown to dislike them. It's pop psychology, cosmo for pseudo intellectuals. In monkeys solitude made for some crazy monkeys, but we have the internet connecting us. I think thats a little better than a wire mesh monkey. We're not truly alone if we're alone together. I'm not saying we're are in the best health. But we are connected through 4chan.

39 min later 4004178 Anonymous
>>4004130 Well, this seems to be another point, I've seen some studies that even mention TV as a social substitute, so one wonders, who is lonely in absolute terms anymore? Even an avid reader is connecting with SOME individual, dead or alive, on a much deeper level than "normal" interaction seem to offer.

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