11 Signs You Were Born To Be A Loner

Loneliness is a complex and unpleasant emotional response to isolation or lack of companionship. The pain of loneliness is such that, throughout history, solitary confinement has been used as a form of torture and punishment.

More than just painful, loneliness is also damaging. Lonely people eat and drink more and exercise and sleep less. They are at higher risk of developing psychological problems, such as depression, psychosis, and addiction, as well as physical problems, such as infection, cancer, and cardiovascular disease.Loneliness is a particular problem of modernity. One U.S. study found that between 1985 and 2004, the proportion of people reporting having no one to confide in almost tripled. According to a poll carried out in 2017 for the Jo Cox Commission on Loneliness, three-quarters of older people in the U.K. are lonely. Shockingly, two-fifths of respondents agreed with the statement, “sometimes an entire day goes by, and I haven’t spoken to anybody.”Some of the factors behind these stark statistics include smaller household sizes, greater migration, rising self-employment, higher media consumption, and longer life expectancy. Large conglomerations built on productivity and consumption at the expense of connection and contemplation can feel profoundly alienating. The Internet has become the great comforter and seems to offer it all: news, knowledge, music, entertainment, shopping, relationships, and even sex. But over time, it foments envy and division, confuses our needs and priorities, desensitizes us to violence and suffering, and, by creating a false sense of connectedness, entrenches superficial relationships at the cost of living ones.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/hide-and-seek/201911/what-we-can-learn-loners