Loneliness
unpleasant emotional response to isolation
Loneliness is a sad emotion that a person can feel if they are isolated or feel a sense of lack of friends and family members. Loneliness can make people feel anxious.
People can feel lonely even if they are surrounded by a lot of other people. Loneliness can occur even to people in marriages, relationships, families and successful jobs. One cause of loneliness is a lack of friends during childhood and teenage years. Loneliness can also be caused by chronic depression. Loneliness can also be caused when a relationship or marriage ends.
Loneliness is a theme in literature, going back to the Epic of Gilgamesh.
Related pagesEdit
- Social isolation
- Belyaev, Igor A. and Lyashchenko, Maksim N. (2020) “Socio-cultural determinacy of human loneliness”, Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities and Social Sciences, vol. 13, no. 8, pp. 1264–1274, DOI: 10.17516/1997-1370-0640.
