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    Default Loneliness lay at the heart of nearly all mental illness?

    This is something I found: https://newrepublic.com/article/1131...n-can-kill-you

    Among analysts, Fromm-Reichmann, who had come to the United States from Germany to escape Hitler, was known for insisting that no patient was too sick to be healed through trust and intimacy. She figured that loneliness lay at the heart of nearly all mental illness and that the lonely person was just about the most terrifying spectacle in the world. She once chastised her fellow therapists for withdrawing from emotionally unreachable patients rather than risk being contaminated by them. The uncanny specter of loneliness “touches on our own possibility of loneliness,” she said. “We evade it and feel guilty.”
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    Default Re: Loneliness lay at the heart of nearly all mental illness?

    This feels very true to me... I think it very often lies at the heart of misery (at least for myself.) Thank you for posting this.

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    Default Re: Loneliness lay at the heart of nearly all mental illness?

    I was just thinking today that solitary confinement, which is defined as torture in many places, must be like death or insanity, since it removes us from connection with people. Humans are social, and other people help us define ourselves.
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