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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
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#1 I have been divorced for years, and I still feel lonely. I have learned the difference between being alone and being lonely. In a crowd, at work, and even in a family setting, I always feel lonely.
#2 Katie Bishop, after working in software for six months, was fifteen pounds heavier and miserable. She was not just dealing with the heartache that fuels pop songs and Miss Lonelyhearts columns, but a serious problem that began with a genetic predisposition and a high sensitivity to feeling the absence of connection.
#3 Loneliness is a feeling of isolation, and it is extremely common. It is not just a matter of being alone, but the subjective experience of being alone. It can be brief and superficial, or it can be severe and chronic.
#4 To better understand your loneliness, answer these questions: How often do you feel there is no one you can turn to. How often do you feel alone. How often do you feel part of a group of friends. How often do you feel that you have a lot in common with others.

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Publié par	Everest Media LLC
Date de parution	13 mars 2022
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781669353485
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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#1

I have been divorced for years, and I still feel lonely. I have learned the difference between being alone and being lonely. In a crowd, at work, and even in a family setting, I always feel lonely.

#2

Katie Bishop, after working in software for six months, was fifteen pounds heavier and miserable. She was not just dealing with the heartache that fuels pop songs and Miss Lonelyhearts columns, but a serious problem that began with a genetic predisposition and a high sensitivity to feeling the absence of connection.

#3

Loneliness is a feeling of isolation, and it is extremely common. It is not just a matter of being alone, but the subjective experience of being alone. It can be brief and superficial, or it can be severe and chronic.

#4

To better understand your loneliness, answer these questions: How often do you feel there is no one you can turn to. How often do you feel alone. How often do you feel part of a group of friends. How often do you feel that you have a lot in common with others.

#5

Loneliness is not a permanent condition. It is when the pain of isolation becomes a self-reinforcing loop of negative thoughts, sensations, and behaviors. Feeling lonely is not a sign that you are lacking social connections, but rather a sign that you are human.

#6

The emotional region of the brain that is activated when we experience rejection is the same region that registers emotional responses to physical pain. The pain of loneliness is a deeply disruptive hurt, and trying to make ourselves feel better with fatty foods and reruns of Friends will only make matters worse.

#7

I have been studying how our brain and body are interconnected with our social responses for more than thirty years. I teach psychology at the University of Chicago, and I direct the Center for Cognitive and Social Neuroscience there.

#8

The most evocative experiences in life are weddings, births, and deaths, which are events associated with the beginnings and endings of social bonds. We care deeply what others think of us, and this is why social anxiety is so common.

#9

The roots of our human impulse for social connection run so deep that feeling isolated can undermine our ability to think clearly. The sensory experience of social connection, deeply woven into who we are, helps regulate our physiological and emotional equilibrium.

#10

There are no easy-to-assign labels where loneliness is concerned. When a deranged man named Russell Weston stormed the U. S. Capitol in 1998, his picture appeared on the cover of Newsweek under a headline that read, The Loner. However, when we look at the broad continuum of people who feel lonely, we find that they have the capacity to be just as socially adept as anyone else.

#11

The three factors that make up loneliness are level of vulnerability to social disconnection, ability to self-regulate the emotions associated with feeling isolated, and mental representations and expectations of, and reasoning about, others.

#12

When we are lonely, we often assume that others are against us, and we become defensive. We may also start to blame others for our loneliness, and become more likely to lash out.

#13

Loneliness is a common cause of social anxiety, and it is easy to see how this can become a self-fulfilling prophecy. But the fact that loneliness makes us contribute to the problem is actually a positive thing, because it allows us to address the problem and find solutions.

#14

The secret to gaining access to social connection and social contentment is to be less distracted by your own psychological business, which is based on feelings of threat. When you feel connected, you are generally less agitated and less stressed than when you feel lonely.

#15

I want to help the socially satisfied get from good to great, while helping the lonely regain control of their lives. I believe that with a little encouragement, most anyone can learn to modify self-defeating interactions.

#16

Greg, a young man from small-town middle America, moved to New York City and was happy to be free. He soon found himself with a partner, who began to place greater and greater demands on him. He was too ashamed to open up to anyone else.

#17

The genes provide a leash on our behavior, but an extremely elastic one. Our genetic inheritance imposes certain constraints, but it also allows us to wiggle room. When parents boast about a child’s talent for music, or sports, or math, they often wonder about the relative importance of these two major influences - DNA and the world around us.

#18

The genetic influence on empathy is clear, but it is also clear that nature embraces variety. Conditions in nature are never entirely stable, so each gene pool holds many different options in reserve.

#19

The heritability of loneliness is 48 percent. That means that 48 percent of the time, the statement I feel lonely is applicable to one of the twins, but not the other. The influence of genes on a purely physical characteristic such as eye color is 100 percent, but the influence of genes on certain conditions such as Huntington’s disease is not.

#20

I once flew from Chicago to Spain via Miami. I had never traveled from Chicago to Europe by way of Miami before, but I had an armful of papers to grade, so I thought no more about it. I fell asleep.

#21

The story is about how I ended up in a St. George hotel bar rather than on a flight to Spain. It turned out that my new acquaintances were professional footballers visiting from England with their families. We talked about sports, and then about other things.

#22

When we are lonely, we tend to attribute success to our own actions and failure to bad luck, while we turn even small errors into catastrophes in our own minds. Meanwhile, we use the same cognitive shortcuts to try to barricade ourselves against criticism and responsibility for our screw-ups.

#23

The balance between need and satisfaction is constantly shifting for each of us. We all have experiences where we feel very alone, but when we take our inadvertent trip to Grenada, we feel especially upbeat and connected.

#24

Loneliness can make us less able to get past the normal disruptions, setbacks, and mistakes of day-to-day life. It can also create a subtle but persistent difference in cardiovascular function that can lead to trouble later in life.

#25

The fight-or-flight response is a neurological response that helps us prepare for threats to our safety. It consists of a prompt to immediate action that increases resistance in the cardiovascular system and floods the body with hormones that rev us up.

#26

The human brain is barely larger than that of an ape, and we have more cortical neurons than other mammals, but we hardly have any more cognitive ability than them.

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