'Social recession': how isolation can affect physical and mental health | Coronavirus |... - 0 views
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Long-term, isolation even increases the risk of premature death. It’s being called a “social recession”
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“People who are more socially connected show less inflammation, conversely people who are more isolated and lonely show increased chronic inflammation.
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The risk of every cause of death – including heart disease, cancer, stroke, renal failure – increased from isolation.
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One of the reasons people can suffer in social isolation is because personal relationships can help us cope with stress,
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“For instance: the ongoing uncertainty of what’s going on right now in the world, your body’s response to that may differ. Depending on the extent to which you feel like you have the resources you need to cope with that. And that in large part may be dependent on whether or not you feel like you have others in your life you can rely on.
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“We have evolved to be social creatures. For all the history of humanity, people have been in family structures, people have been in groups, we’re evolved to kind of crave and rely on that interaction with other human beings,”
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“So when we don’t have that it’s a huge void in the way that we go about being human. This is something that has been kind of hard-wired into who we are as beings.”
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people do at least have a wealth of options to stay connected. Texting, video calling or even the phone could potentially help avert the sense of isolation or loneliness, Khullar said.