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Does loneliness really cause us to die earlier? - Centre for Mental Health
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The World Health Organization (WHO) has just issued a strong warning: loneliness affects one in six people in the world and is related to more than 870,000 deaths a year. Its impact is as severe as smoking, obesity, or pollution. But, unlike these threats, loneliness is often invisible: it is not easily diagnosed, rarely verbalized, and yet it damages with the same force.
Does loneliness really cause us to die earlier? - Centre for Mental Health
Much has been written about the link between loneliness on health. It’s an issue that has attracted increasing attention, including from the World Health Organisation which recently launched an international commission on the problem. But one question has always proved difficult to untangle. Is it really loneliness that causes poor health (and an earlier death) – or does poor health cause loneliness? One theory is that maybe loneliness doesn’t…
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