Do you think loneliness is just a feeling. As long as you learn to live together, it’s no big deal? In fact, long-term loneliness can affect our physical and mental health. More and more studies have shown that loneliness increases stress hormones, causes inflammation in the body, and increases the chance of heart disease, arthritis, diabetes, and dementia. In addition, loneliness is highly related to, anxiety, and even self-destruction. The isolation and lockdown measures adopted to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus in the past two years have also made the problem of solitary isolation and worsen the mental health of many people...
"Together: Loneliness, Health and What Happens When We Find Connection" Dr. Vivek H., a U.S. Surgeon General, the author of this book, is the author of the American surgeon (U.S. Surgeon General). Dr. Vivek H. Murthy) called loneliness a “increasingly serious health epidemic” and pointed out that loneliness is related to the reduction of life, and its possible damage is not far from smoking 15 cigarettes a day. Dr. Musi warned the world: We are in a loneliness pandemic.
Why is loneliness painful?
Dr. Musi said that it is very painful when people are extremely isolated physically or emotionally. This is why social punishment has been used for a long time to use body isolation, isolation and sole ban.
Everyone handles pain differently. Some people ask friends to complain to them to relieve pain, some people use alcohol or drugs to numb themselves, some people ejaculate the pain on others, and some people hurt themselves or bury themselves without working. The profound pain caused by feeling alone will affect our behavior and thus our health. What is worrying is that the longer the loneliness continues, the more difficult it is to connect with others.
Doctor Musi observed from his patients who were struggling with addicted or violent that what made them unable to breathe the most was that they had to face these challenges alone. Many patients did not know how to fall into the negative circle because of the pain of loneliness, and could not escape the purity of loneliness after physical and mental inception.
Global threat of loneliness
A survey conducted by the Kaiser Family Foundation and Economics on: "loneliness" and "social isolation" conducted by adults in the United States, Britain and Japan shows that people who feel lonely are more likely to have health and financial problems, and the proportion of negative life events they have experienced in the past two years is also higher; in addition, 3/10 people who feel lonely said that loneliness gives them the thought of self-inflicted.
In Taiwan, a survey by the Mental Health Foundation on "Isolation" and mental health issues also found that people with higher feelings of loneliness will become less ideal in their mental health.
The lonely experience of the British broadcaster BBC in 2018 (with 237 countries and 55,000 participants) found that not only the elderly, but also the young people will feel lonely, and loneliness has an impact on people of all ages.
In addition, loneliness will cause shame and make people feel more inferior. The survey found that women are more likely to feel shame about their own loneliness than men. In addition, lonely people score higher in empathy, have low expectations for others, and have low expectations for friendship; older people will hide their own feelings of loneliness than younger people.
, published by the Australian Psychology Association and Swinburne University, pointed out that one quarter of Australians feel lonely. Researchers say that loneliness is related to depression, social anxiety and paranoidness.
UK and Japan appoint specialist officials to fight against loneliness
Former British Prime Minister May appointed the first "lonelle minister" in January 2018 to announce the war to loneliness. The pusher behind this job came from a 2017 report issued by the Jo Cox Commission on Loneline. The report shows that more than 9 million people in the UK often or always feel lonely; three-quarters of community doctors say that one-fifth of their patients are diagnosed every day; 50% of people with physical and mental disabilities feel lonely every day.
Elderly charity organization Age UK also discovered that 200,000 elderly people had not talked with their relatives for more than a month.
In addition, British charity group Action for Children said that among their service, 43% of young people between the ages of 17 and 25 suffer from solitary self-destruction.
In addition, British employers spend about £2.5 billion on solitary problems each year, and estimated that the alienated community relations may cost the British economy £32 billion per year. Faced with such a huge threat to health and economic losses, former British Prime Minister Maye declared that loneliness is one of the biggest public health challenges of this era. Coincidentally, the Japanese government also announced the establishment of a "Solitude and Isolation Countermeasure Office" in mid-February 2021, hoping to curb the threat of "Solitude" on life. Data released by Japanese police stations show that nearly 21,000 people killed themselves in 2020, 750 more than in 2019, breaking the record in the past 11 years; the increase in the number of self-killers has clearly appeared among women and young people. Japanese women are "isolated" very seriously.
Japanese turtle guidance organization Bond Project also pointed out that he has received calls from many helpers recently, saying that he feels lonely and painful.
Japan's University of Tokushima found that about half of the visitors said they felt severe stress during the COVID-19 epidemic and were tired of staying at home for a long time. 11.5% of participants believed that their emotional problems had reached the point where they needed medical assistance.
In fact, the "single" issues in Japanese society are very complicated. The young "snails", the "single death of the elderly", and the defamation of women are all long-standing problems. However, the raging COVID-19 epidemic seems to make the problems of loneliness even more evil.
The COVID-19 epidemic has caused loneliness and social isolation
The COVID-19 epidemic has spread around the world for more than two years. By early November 2021, it has caused more than 200 confirmed cases and more than 5 million deaths worldwide. With the vaccine being administered, the epidemic seems to be under control. Many countries have also gradually relaxed quarantine restrictions, hoping that people's lives will slowly return to their pre-epidemic conditions. However, the city lockdown and isolation measures adopted to prevent the spread of the virus have made the problem of being regarded as a public epidemic before the outbreak more severe, and also made the mental health of many people more
In addition to the UK and Japan, many countries have not set up special institutions to prevent and control the disease, but gradually realized that the problem of being alone cannot be solved through personal power. The Australian Psychology Association proposed the "Power of Human Connection" campaign in the 2018 Psychology Week, hoping to help orphans strengthen their social skills through professional psychologists to promote social connection and healthy physical and mental development, and call on the government to be ignorant of the issue of orphans and propose improvement measures.
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