SWEETNESS (Taste); SOLITUDE; MENTAL health; LIVING alone; SOCIAL networks; LONELINESS

"Selfefficacy is the belief in your ability to achieve something, and it's associated with better coping", says Jenny Groarke, PhD, a psychology lecturer at Queen's University Belfast in Northern Ireland. "Chronic loneliness stimulates the stress system, and over time, this could wear on you and increase the inflammation associated with diabetes and heart disease", says Ruth Hackett, PhD, a lecturer in health psychology at King's College London. Get Some Sleep Groarke's research found a link between sleep issues and lockdown loneliness, and while there may be a chicken-or-egg situation happening here, fatigue def makes it harder to deal with anything and everything. [Extracted from the article]

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