About 40 percent of us regularly experience loneliness, with all of its mental and physical costs. Fortunately, recent research points to some ways to overcome it.
In your opinion, how to cure loneliness? Thank you for your participation.
Friendship with books is the best way to overcome loneliness.
Winnicott, D.W. (1958). The Capacity to be Alone. Int. J. Psycho-Anal., 39:416-420
"The capacity to be alone is a highly sophisticated phenomenon and has many contributory factors. It is closely related to emotional maturity."
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When you have been safely alone in the present of e.g. mother as a child, you may value your aloneness as your precious possession (Winnicott). I have observed that creative people need to be alone. For those who fear to be alone, it is a great suffering, for those who like to be alone it is a great relief to not be around people all the time.
Thank you for sharing with us such a thoughtful answer s. Béatrice Marianne Ewalds-Kvist
Well, the world goes to an era of loneliness. The population increases but values (friendship, relationships, family) decrease. I believe that the cure is family and good friends + learning to live lonely.
Yes, that is really such a healthy habit! Thank you Arvind Singh
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