(damn!) “ loneliness raises our blood pressure, negatively alters our cognitive functions, is associated with Type 2 diabetes and shortens our life spans.. greater risk of cardiovascular disease, dementia, stroke, depression, anxiety, loneliness can cause poor health instead of merely correlating with it, they hired a hypnotist to coax a handful of test subjects into a state of heightened loneliness… the subjects’ blood pressure and inflammation levels surged.” https://archive.ph/mxz3x .