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Loneliness is a subjective experience of social isolation, characterized by feelings of being unloved or having a lack of love. It is a significant problem in the world, associated with increased anxiety, depression, heart disease, dementia, cognitive decline, and obesity. It's important to recognize that loneliness is not just about the world or other people, but also about our internal thoughts and feelings. Research even suggests that experiencing loneliness can increase the odds of dying by 30%. It's worth noting that loneliness is different from aloneness, as being alone doesn't necessarily equate to feeling lonely. Overall, there are two kinds of loneliness — emotional loneliness and social loneliness.

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 ?