Summary of Key Points:
Our overall health can be affected if we go too long without social connections, because humans are made to have social contact. Everyone will get lonely from time to time and that's normal, but if you find you are lonely the majority of the time you will need to create social connections as to avoid negative health impacts. Feeling lonely can lead to feeling sad, destressed, and isolated from others. These “tag-along” feelings can lead to depression and alcoholism in adults and delinquency in children. Some of the non-mental health negatives that can occur due to chronic loneliness are poor nutrition, irregular sleeping patterns, eradication