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Loneliness is a subjective experience of social isolation, a feeling or experience of lovelessness at its core. It is associated with increased anxiety, depression, heart disease, dementia, cognitive decline, and obesity. It is a serious and detrimental condition, increasing the odds of dying by 30%. It's important to understand that loneliness is not about the world or other people, but rather an individual's subjective experience. While aloneness and loneliness are different, loneliness can be a significant problem experienced by many people.

Life, Love, and Loneliness with Rob Mack

Again , remember it's , it's inside um this social um isolation , subjective experience of that which we call loneliness um is has the deleterious or detrimental effect on your health that smoking 15 cigarettes a day does , right ? So loneliness , the experience of loneliness is associated with an increased anxiety , depression , heart disease , uh dementia , cognitive decline , obesity . In fact , loneliness is such a serious and detrimental experiencing condition that it increases the odds of dying by 30% right ?

Life, Love, and Loneliness with Rob Mack

Ok . Loneliness is lonely thoughts , a feeling or experience of loveless is simply at the very core or root of it it's thoughts of loneliness or thoughts of love , lessness , right ? So loveless is loveless thoughts , loneliness is lonely thoughts , unhappiness essentially is unhappy thoughts , right ?

Life, Love, and Loneliness with Rob Mack

And so here's where I want to make a little delineation here . So lots of us experience loneliness over the course of our lives . We know that loneliness is actually a it's a public health epidemic , right ?

Life, Love, and Loneliness with Rob Mack

And the better we relate with ourselves , the better we can relate with other people . So this is how big of a problem loneliness is in the world um to loneliness , the subjective experience of social isolation . Right ?

Life, Love, and Loneliness with Rob Mack

You don't have that many social connections or whatnot . But the interesting thing is is that loneliness is really the subject , subjective experience of that social isolation , right ? And so by subjective , we mean that you can be alone but not feel lonely , right ?