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Loneliness can have a significant impact on both mental and physical health. It is associated with conditions such as anxiety, depression, heart disease, dementia, cognitive decline, and obesity. It is crucial to recognize that loneliness is a subjective experience of social isolation and not just a feeling of being alone. This understanding can help in addressing and combating the detrimental effects of loneliness. It's essential to remember that loneliness shouldn't be confused with simply being alone, as they are different experiences.

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 ?