Title : "The human brain, having evolved to seek safety in numbers, registers loneliness as a threat. The centers that monitor for danger, including the amygdala, go into overdrive..."
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"The human brain, having evolved to seek safety in numbers, registers loneliness as a threat. The centers that monitor for danger, including the amygdala, go into overdrive..."
"... triggering a release of 'fight or flight' stress hormones.... Subconsciously, you start to view other people more as potential threats — sources of rejection or apathy — and less as friends, remedies for your loneliness... Loneliness is a subjective feeling. People can have a lot of contact and still be lonely, or be perfectly content by themselves. For many New Yorkers, the pandemic brought too much contact with others — in crowded apartments, workplaces or subways. But the contacts were not necessarily fulfilling or desired and maybe seemed dangerous. This, too, is a condition for loneliness."
This is a long article, and the focus is on how the Covid lockdown exacerbated feelings of loneliness, but there was also some stray information about how isolation may have increased our susceptibility to the disease.
We're told that those “fight or flight” hormones — brought on by loneliness — cause the body to produce "produces extra inflammatory cells to repair tissue damage and prevent infection, and fewer antibodies to fight viruses." That is, the lockdown isolation — if you reacted by getting lonely — made you "less resistant to" the disease and "less responsive to the vaccine, because you have fewer antibodies to fight it."
I don't think I've seen that health issue discussed before. Does the body have to "decide" whether to go with inflammatory cells or antibodies? I can see why withdrawing from the world might cause the body to produce fewer antibodies, but this is saying that the loneliness caused by isolation generates hormones that restrict the production of antibodies. Is that true?
I was also struck by the one appearance of religion, from a man whose wife had died: "Who doesn’t see suicide as an option at that juncture of life? But I’m religious, and that would terminate any chance I have of being with my wife or my loved ones when I’m dead. I can’t jeopardize that possibility."
"... triggering a release of 'fight or flight' stress hormones.... Subconsciously, you start to view other people more as potential threats — sources of rejection or apathy — and less as friends, remedies for your loneliness... Loneliness is a subjective feeling. People can have a lot of contact and still be lonely, or be perfectly content by themselves. For many New Yorkers, the pandemic brought too much contact with others — in crowded apartments, workplaces or subways. But the contacts were not necessarily fulfilling or desired and maybe seemed dangerous. This, too, is a condition for loneliness."
This is a long article, and the focus is on how the Covid lockdown exacerbated feelings of loneliness, but there was also some stray information about how isolation may have increased our susceptibility to the disease.
We're told that those “fight or flight” hormones — brought on by loneliness — cause the body to produce "produces extra inflammatory cells to repair tissue damage and prevent infection, and fewer antibodies to fight viruses." That is, the lockdown isolation — if you reacted by getting lonely — made you "less resistant to" the disease and "less responsive to the vaccine, because you have fewer antibodies to fight it."
I don't think I've seen that health issue discussed before. Does the body have to "decide" whether to go with inflammatory cells or antibodies? I can see why withdrawing from the world might cause the body to produce fewer antibodies, but this is saying that the loneliness caused by isolation generates hormones that restrict the production of antibodies. Is that true?
I was also struck by the one appearance of religion, from a man whose wife had died: "Who doesn’t see suicide as an option at that juncture of life? But I’m religious, and that would terminate any chance I have of being with my wife or my loved ones when I’m dead. I can’t jeopardize that possibility."
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