After Coronavirus we will face “pidemine” of loneliness, psychologists warn

Loneliness is not just a feeling. Loneliness is a biological sign we need to look for other people, such as hunger that moves us to seek food or thirst that makes us drink water, says psychologist and scientist Juliane Holt-Lunstad.

According to her, the conclusions of several previous studies involving 3.4 million people related to social isolation, loneliness and family ties with one member. The results it achieved in 2015 are even more significant now when the world is facing the pandemic of the Coronervirus. Feelings of loneliness, social isolation, and loneliness have shown that they increase the risk of premature death (from 26 to 32%), regardless of age, gender, settlement, or culture.

Psychologists warn that the outbreak of loneliness can be expected after the coronary. They calculated that the long - term effects of loneliness caused the same damage as smoking 15 cigarettes a day. According to Dr. Su Varma, loneliness may be a cause for attack on the brain and attack on the heart, overweight, and manifestation of degeneracy.

Loneliness also increases the risk of developing clinical depression. An episode of depressive, depressive disorder that lasts more than two weeks and is followed by at least five of the nine symptoms that define depression doubles the possibility of other depressive episodes.

Symptoms may include frustration, loss of interest in activities that have given us satisfaction, guilt, insufficient energy, concentration difficulties, poor appetite, weight loss, insomnia...

Two episodes of depression increase the risk of developing a third episode by 75%, three episodes with 95% increase the likelihood of a fourth episode, etc. The cycle of depression is becoming increasingly accessible, warns Dr. Wounds.
Loneliness can manifest itself in many people during the choreography, while relief measures are now limited. Human connection is still essential to survival. But during the time of the absolutely needed social isolation, the solution is to use technology in a wholesome social way. So stay in touch with people face to face, but in distance.