New Cigna Study Reveals Loneliness at Epidemic Levels in America

[nmoore63]

Stop whining.

Fuck off.

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[jediuser598]

Stop whining.

Fuck off.

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Lol, is that you?

I'm so confused.

[Okeefenokee]

Jeez, do you people even TRY to understand the person you are responding to? I'm bi-polar, partially agoraphobic with serious anxiety and nervous disorders, the kid is Aspie and Nerd struggles with depression.

When, exactly, did loneliness become a mental disorder/chemical imbalance?

I didn't realize analysis of your entire family was necessary in order to disagree with your post.

No one mentioned chemical imbalance or mental disorder. You can be lonely without those. Wait, I need to understand who it is I'm dealing with here. Oh yeah, bi-polar etc. etc. Either an expert on loneliness or randomly shit posting. Hmmmmm.

I love how Kath argues against statistical norms by trying to turn everything into a one on one personal issue...precisely the way women are statistically more inclined to gravitate towards personal interactions rather than things (statistics).

It's just so damn perfect.

[doc_loliday]

So much science in this thread.

What science, though?

That's my point. Lots of claims, but not so much delivery.

[nmoore63]

Fuck off.

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Lol, is that you?

I'm so confused.

You can’t have seriously argued with me on a message board for a decade and have no idea who I am.

Sad panda.

[Heraclius]

That's me - simple solution, one-directional thinking Kath. I can't ever see an issue from more than one-side. That's what everyone says.

Jeez, do you people even TRY to understand the person you are responding to? I'm bi-polar, partially agoraphobic with serious anxiety and nervous disorders, the kid is Aspie and Nerd struggles with depression.

When, exactly, did loneliness become a mental disorder/chemical imbalance?

Perhaps the feeling of loneliness comes from the fact that Gen Z has had the importance of policing the way they speak and making sure no one is offended beaten into them. The only places that you can really let yourself loose and not have to worry about the repercussions of what you're saying is either online or in a close knit group of people you trust. When Gen Z is going off to college and needs to recreate that close knit group of people, they find quite a lot of their real world interaction devoted to bland conversational topics meant to not offend anyone in fear of socially isolating themselves. I doubt this is some new phenomena. You could probably survey any period of time within the last 50 years or so and find that the most isolated are going to be those at the age of being put in nursing homes and those going off to university. I do think that the ability to rely on the Internet means less people are "pushed" to go outside of their comfort zone and instead they will stay in the comfort of what is defined as "loneliness" by the survey.

[nmoore63]

As long as we are talking about generation shit.
Fucking life expectancy.
Boomers are in a wierd qwerk where people all started living longer but not before their elders passed, so they got the wealth transfer but then got to horde it for longer than any generation before or after them.

[jediuser598]

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Lol, is that you?

I'm so confused.

You can’t have seriously argued with me on a message board for a decade and have no idea who I am.

Sad panda.

Fuck man, stop making me feel old. We've been at this for a decade?

[Kath]

Jeez, do you people even TRY to understand the person you are responding to? I'm bi-polar, partially agoraphobic with serious anxiety and nervous disorders, the kid is Aspie and Nerd struggles with depression.

When, exactly, did loneliness become a mental disorder/chemical imbalance?

I didn't realize analysis of your entire family was necessary in order to disagree with your post.

Oh, it's most definitely not. But, after how many years, you should know that I do not think one-directionally and you should also know that I know that most mental health conditions cannot be treated by, "suck it up, buttercup."

You talked as if loneliness were on par with depression and as if I can't understand nuance.

Carry on with your bad-ass self.

[Kath]

You can’t have seriously argued with me on a message board for a decade and have no idea who I am.

Sad panda.

Seems to be an epidemic around here. Everyone treating every post as if it's the first time they've ever heard from that poster.