Believe it or not: Loneliness
Yeah, it may not sound like something that would impact your life so much, but if you fell for such a way of thinking, then you probably never had a moment in your life when you felt extremely lonely. These types of negative emotions have such a high impact on our lives that even if you don’t have any other harmful habits, it will still be very serious.
We doubt you ever imagined that loneliness would shorten your lifespan by 15 years, but research in this area has shown that this is the result! Fifteen years is such a long amount of time that even if we say that we’re losing it, it may be hard to imagine.
However, researchers have said that it has the same effect on our bodies that is similar to the impact of smoking 15 cigarettes a day for years and that loneliness and not having enough social interaction actually reduce your lifespan more than the time associated with obesity.
Unfortunately, loneliness doesn’t only lower our lifespans, but it is actually linked with a number of other important, and at times, dangerous diseases. These include, but are not limited to, dementia, depression, and anxiety, and put you at an increased risk of developing a lot of cardiovascular diseases!
Not to mention, it will actively decrease proactive performance, inhibit your decision-making and reasoning skills, as well as creativity! So, for both our personal and, at times, professional sakes, we should strive to make a habit of reaching out to others, but also all of us should pay more attention to the loneliness epidemic around us!
When you’re having a bad day, call your parents, friends, or other family members if you can’t meet up with them!
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