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  1. Nov 2025
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    Loneliness doubles risk of physical pain | City St George's, University of London
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    1. RubioNMC 05 Nov 2025
      The research highlights how loneliness is not simply a matter of lacking social contact, but is linked with poorer health and reduced wellbeing more broadly. Despite many lonely individuals reporting that they had friends or relatives to count on, or were satisfied with opportunities to meet people, the association with pain remained significant, suggesting that loneliness can persist even in the presence of social connections.

      Loneliness can be the result, as well as, be caused by health issues, and this sentence is super interesting because many people think that loneliness IS the lack of social contact or relationships, but that's not for all cases. It's another different perspective of how loneliness is caused, and in some cases there is not a solution, like finding friends or people to talk to.

    2. RubioNMC 04 Nov 2025
      Lonely individuals were also more likely to report being single, separated, divorced, or widowed,

      I wonder if that is the cause of their loneliness, or they were feeling that way beforehand.

    3. RubioNMC 04 Nov 2025
      Importantly, these associations varied in strength across countries, pointing towards the importance of cultural factors.

      I think this is interesting, because I had never thought about this perspective about how culture might influence the perception of loneliness. Some cultures might actually think that loneliness can be a sign of weakness which can make it hard to find help, and make those feelings more prominent.

    4. RubioNMC 04 Nov 2025
      While older people were more likely to experience loneliness, pain, and health problems, the relationship between loneliness and pain was consistent across the lifespan.

      It makes sense how older people have it more difficult, because as we age, the more health problems arise, and it's even doubled when we feel lonely. But, the interesting part is that it's not mainly focused on the older generations like we think, but it's all age groups.

    5. RubioNMC 04 Nov 2025
      It was also found that lonely individuals were more likely to have only an elementary education. They were less often in full-time employment, more likely to work part-time wanting to work full-time, to be unemployed or out of the workforce, and to have a lower average personal income than non-lonely individuals.

      I wonder if the reason for this is because of their feelings of loneliness that might prevent them from possibly being productive, or it might seem to employers that they are "not happy" during their job. I'm curious as to why they are more likely to have only an elementary education. I also wonder if it's possible that their current loneliness is preventing them from pursuing those important relationships because of negative thoughts of it not working out?

    6. RubioNMC 04 Nov 2025
      The findings show that individuals who reported feeling lonely were more than twice as likely to experience physical pain compared to those who did not.

      Was age a factor? As you grow older do you experience more physical pain than a younger, but also lonely person?

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