important issue of these times is the issue of confronting loneliness.

We'll talk about the ramifications, why loneliness is such an important consideration to address and then how we address it.

We'll be talking about ways in addition to connecting that we can ameliorate the devastating emotional experience of

loneliness.

So let's dive right in.

The human brain, as I, it seems I start every other talk with,

is a social organ.

Everything about the human brain was or developed was dedicated to meeting the needs

of maintaining social bonds, social affiliations.

We have an innate cycle biological system, massive

prefrontal cortex, which allows us to connect with others through language and emotions, dorsal interiors singular cortex, that creates that innate

psychological system that impels us to establish proximity with others for a sense of security.

We are a species that survives by connecting.

In our species case, the way we survived was not by flying away or swimming away from threats, but by bonding with others.

And given the connecting was the key to our species survival,

evolution made sure that our brains developed all of the circuits and regions and

neural connections to impel us to sustain and maximize the benefits of our interpersonal connections.

So, emotional loneliness,

loneliness, which is the absence of secure attachment figures, which means people

that we can turn to when we're faced with threats or overwhelming stress or setbacks in life,

someone that we can go to for soothing and emotion regulation, people who calm us down, listen, and help us frame experience in a way that doesn't lead us to wind up with maladaptive

cognition such as when people don't have other people to turn to after setbacks and stressful events, they tend to blame themselves or believe that everything bad that happens is just happening to them.

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