Loneliness & Isolation: Shocking Impacts

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Mayim Bialik

Mental Health, Society & Culture, Wellness, Health & Fitness, Comedy, Thebigbangtheory, Spirituality, Selfimprovement, Mentalhealth

4.7 • 5.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2024

⏱️ 77 minutes

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INCREASE LIFESPAN by Recalling Positive Memories - A Simple Technique to Improve Health! Mayim breaks down famous relationship expert, Dr. David Richo’s ,“5 A’s” (Attention, Acceptance, Appreciation, Allowing, Affection) and their crucial role in fostering healthy connections in this BRAND NEW Thursday episode of MBB. (This is what happens when one AMA submission turns into an entire full episode!) Discover how missing these elements in childhood can impact adulthood and adult relationships, why social connection is vital for our mental and physical health, and what is actually going on in the brain when we connect or don't connect with others. Explore how the brain's stress pathways either play into social deprivation or a desire for social connection through our default mode network, how the brain's reward system of positive memory recall can increase your social battery and even your lifespan, and learn why social media can't replace real human interaction. We also dive into: - The detrimental effects of isolation on physical and mental health - How shared experiences create lasting bonds - The benefits of parallel play in children and adults - Which age group social interaction is most critical for - The importance of memory coding around - How the brain is wired to give in to peer pressure - Why loneliness is hard to escape without proper motivation - What leads us to crave alone time and how do we know when isolation has become unhealthy for us? DON'T MISS this crucial episode on the dangers of withholding from your relationships, and the positive behaviors that can get us back on track!

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0:00.0	When we talk about social interactions, there's three components that are important,
0:06.2	reward and motivation. You get a gold star for saying, dopamine, stress responses, and social
0:12.0	cognition.
0:12.9	What often happens when you isolate animals or humans,
0:17.0	you see a lot of stress features get kicked up
0:19.9	because it's stressful to be alone.
0:22.3	And you also see an attempt to find reward. So there's this
0:27.1	sort of like motivational component to when I'm alone, I need to not be alone. And I know there's always going to be people who are like I like being alone leave me alone
0:36.0	Generally speaking being socially isolated and loneliness actually poses risk factors for mental health and also for physical health.
0:46.0	In the past 20 years, social engagement in general has taken a dive,
0:51.0	internet, social media, but this was all exacerbated by COVID-19
0:55.8	where there was an even greater decrease in the size of people's social network,
1:00.6	and this leads to an increase in loneliness. Even perceived
1:04.6	social isolation can lead to things like poor decision-making,
1:09.2	avoiding future social contact, increase substance use,
1:14.4	which can be a damage to your health
1:16.0	and also to other relationships,
1:17.7	which promotes further isolation.
1:20.4	It seems that we have what's referred to as a homeostatic need for social contact
1:26.2	that is likely modulated by dopamine and this reward system. It's built into us to have it feel good when we connect with other people.
1:36.7	An earlier mortality rate is associated with a lot of these things that we see surrounding loneliness.
1:43.4	In older age it shows that the longevity of anyone is increased drastically by the strength of
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