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"Loneliness has the same impact on mortality as smoking 15 cigarettes a day, making it even more dangerous than obesity."
- Douglas Nemecek, Chief Medical officer for behavioral health at Cigna

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"Alex’s online circle — involving several dozen accounts, some operated by people who directly identified themselves as members of the Islamic State or whom terrorism analysts believe to be directly linked to the group — collectively spent thousands of hours engaging her over more than six months. They sent her money and plied her with gifts of chocolate. They indulged her curiosity and calmed her apprehensions as they ushered her toward the hard-line theological concepts that ISIS is built on. Alex felt increasingly distressed about lying to her family. And as her secret grew, so did her sense of isolation. Mr. Shaikh, who spent years recruiting for extremist groups before recanting, says the isolation is intentional. “We look for people who are isolated,” he said. “And if they are not isolated already, then we isolated them.”

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-Rukmini Callimachi

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"The quality, not the quantity, of relationships is what's related to whether someone feels isolated or feels satisfied with their relationships,"
- Loneliness: Human Nature and The Need For Social Connection (John Cacioppo)