Loneliness alters your brain's social network. Big shocker, eh?

[YippeeKi YOW !!]

This probably won't be a big surprize to most of us, but it's a very short. very easy read, and confirms what a lot of us have already learned ....

Loneliness alters your brain's social network
Feeling disconnected from others is reflected by how the brain represents relationships
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/06/200615140904.htm

EDIT, 11:14 PM .... Really? Fourteen views and not one measly comment or like? I'm hurt.

Really.

Hurt .

 

[YippeeKi YOW !!]

@Haley
Bless you !!!!

 

[Haley]

@Haley
Bless you !!!!

Gotta be good for something

 

[YippeeKi YOW !!]

Gotta be good for something

Oh, stop !!! You're a particularly caring, thoughty, kind and giving soul, you're just going thru a rough patch right now .....

I know, sometimes it seems like it's all a rough patch with very brief bits of slightly smoother road, then back to the Three Fates: Rough, Rougher, Roughest .... but once you shake off the after-effects of the cold that knocked you out so badly, I promise that things will look better .

Not perfect, but better .

And don't be putting yourself down. Believe me, we live in a world where there are plenty of volunteers for the job. Miserable bustards , every one of them ....

 

[Haley]

Oh, stop !!! You're a particularly caring, thoughty, kind and giving soul, you're just going thru a rough patch right now .....

It was meant to be a tongue-in-cheek comment, but I'll happily take the compliment 😁🤗

 

[andyguitar]

Loneliness alters your brain's social network

Can those changes be reversed? Expect so.

 

[Hufsamor]

EDIT, 11:14 PM .... Really? Fourteen views and not one measly comment or like?

You know, our brains soical network is altered, we have completely forgotten how to like and comment

 

[PatJ]

"Thinking about someone from each category corresponded to a different activity pattern in the mPFC: one for the self, one for the social network (both friends and acquaintances), and one for celebrities."

It's interesting that thinking about celebrities activates a particular neural pattern in the brain. I wonder if that's because people can feel a strong emotional connection to a particular celebrity even though they've never met that person.

This quote makes me think about emotion connections (good and bad) and how they must influence the brain:

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

―Maya Angelou

 

[YippeeKi YOW !!]

You know, our brains soical network is altered, we have completely forgotten how to like and comment

That was posted before all of you good, kind, socially-network-unimpaired souls turned up ..... which I'm deeply grateful for ...

I think that one of the many benefits to this site is that it rescues us from truly severe social impairment and abject loneliness. We're a good group, by and large, and I'm really grateful that, a) I found this site, and b) after much hesitation, I actually signed up here .... it's saved my life ....

The above is the reason that I posted this thread in a non-members only forum, open to anyone who accesses the site .... it may help motivate others who might have the same hesitations that I did, and that I've read others expressing, too.