Can you die of loneliness?

[MadamPia]

I’ve come across a few covid posts here and I keep remembering my daughters voice during the pandemic as she said “it’s so good that we’ve got each other. We would be so bored.” She was only 8 but seemed to have grasped the importance of being with people. Although she was young I feel that we survived covid together.

I remember the friends that lived alone significantly struggling and the urgency to create bubbles with them and also elder people that were isolated.

After watching a Netflix documentary about living healthily to 100 something that came up was how loneliness is contributing to poor health.

I’m sure it’s true but has anyone experienced it or witnessed it?

I was incrediblyoneky during Covid as I live alone. I had a partner who I soke to several times a day and friends and family to talk to but it messed wirh my head. I was also working from home. It was a terrible time for me. I would like to say I'm back to my old self but inot.im still very nervous of Covid. I don't think that lonlinessbitself would cause u to die, but if depression hits then this could cause you to neglect yourself a d this in turn coukd be a contributing factor to someone's demise.i felt, as I'm sure some other people who lived alone did, abandoned by the government. Incredibly dark days.

Apologies for typos OP

Loneliness can affect your mental and physical health, but it is a profound type. People who literally have no one at all.
I know some men who claim they will "die from loneliness". They have family and they have friends. They are complaining about a lack of sex, basically.

I said goodbye to my work colleagues when I left on Friday and haven't said a word to another person all weekend. I will say hello to them again when I get to work tomorrow morning. It's soul destroying.