By: Surjit Singh Flora
Winter is on the corner in Canada, we sometimes experience the bone-chilling cold of the season.
Many Canadians feel lonely, whether or not it has anything to do with the season. In August and September 2021, when the Canadian Social Survey asked about loneliness, more than one in ten people aged 15 and up said that they always or often felt alone.
In Canada, young people reported feeling lonely more often than older people. Twenty-three percent of 15–24-year-olds said they always or often felt lonely. Those 25 to 34 years old, on the other hand, made up 15% of the group. 14 percent of seniors aged 75 and up said they felt lonely more often than those aged 65 to 74 (9 percent).
Indeed! humans are social beings. To exist, we need some kind of relationship with other individuals. Evidence suggests that when our demand for social interaction is unsatisfied, we suffer both psychologically and physically.
Loneliness is an emotional pain caused by a lack of engagement and touch. Definitely, if you stay there and keep telling yourself you’re lonely, it will only become worse.
As Douglas Coupland’s words, “The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself.”
Loneliness elicits bad sentiments and ideas, which act as a soundtrack in our heads, destroying our well-being. Despite this, loneliness is not an abnormal state. We’ve all experienced it at some point in our lives.
Chronic loneliness, on the other hand, is a warning sign of maladjustment. It causes school dropouts in youngsters. They become outsiders and are more prone to delinquency and other negative tendencies. It may indicate more severe psychiatric problems, such as depression, in adults. “Lonely individuals drink more alcohol and do less exercise than those who are not lonely,” says Dr. John Cacioppo of the University of Chicago.
Their food is more fattening, their sleep is less efficient, and they complain of increased daytime weariness. “Loneliness also interferes with the control of biological processes deep inside the body, making us prone to premature aging.” Aside from that, it increases the risk of cardiovascular disease, increases stress levels, leads to poor decision making, decreases memory and learning, and alters brain functioning.
To prevent loneliness, just do activities you like, chat with your loved ones, and call them if necessary. Loneliness is an isolating feeling that burdens and pains the heart. Even when you’re in a social setting, the worry of being socially isolated Loneliness embraces the greatest things in your life and makes you acutely aware of their terrible absence.
Being alone, on the other hand, is a whole other circumstance. Being alone is a state of being lonely, which is a mental condition. Being alone is a decision, and loneliness is the feeling of complete powerlessness. As a result, loneliness may affect memory, induce disorientation, and contribute to sleeplessness. Everything has ramifications.
Whatever the case may be, Loneliness does not strike someone immediately. However, in the long run, it might lead to depression. Depression is severe. And remember, loneliness does not result from being alone. Being around others causes it. and not being able to express what is vital to you. At first, you are hesitant and concerned that you may say something unexpected. You gradually isolate yourself, believing that you are incapable of social engagement. Even if you want to speak to someone but are unable to contact them. Because you have now built a barrier between yourself and society, breaking down the wall now seems to be impossible. You now want someone to reach out to you, but no one comes to your aid. You are now desperate because of your loneliness.
When this desperation does not break through your mental barrier, you gradually sink into despair. Social anxiety, mood swings, and the desire to stay in your room alone and never leave are all signs of loneliness.
I apologize for referring to it as a mental disease. But that is exactly what it seems to be. To live a better life, all you need to do is tear down your loneliness and mental barrier between yourself and others. It’s going to be difficult. But it is not impossible, and it is your only path to a happy , enjoyable, and blissful life.
Loneliness will eat the heck out of your soul if you don’t try to make friends out there. It will sap your will to live and accomplish anything in life. And I’m not exaggerating when I say loneliness. I’ve experienced what it’s like to be alone in a throng. It’s not worthwhile Seriously,
