How Important are Social Relationships for Mental Health?

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Bad for mental and physical health:

Another source:

ā€œWide-ranging research suggests that strong social ties are linked to a longer life. In contrast, loneliness and social isolation are linked to poorer health, depression, and increased risk of early death. Studies have found that having a variety of social relationships may help reduce stress and heart-related risks.ā€

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It actually is quite serious and there is plenty of information about the topic on there.

I was actually slammed on here three years ago for expressing this concern. I too have a boy (and a daughter).

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Recommended reading.

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Theyā€™re very important.

Its also important to establish the cart/horse relationship between the two.

If somebody was once gregarious, outgoing and socially active but becomes sullen and began isolating, their mental health may have taken a turn for the worse, therefore they now are withdrawn.

Or, their mental health may have been bad all along which inhibited socializing/building a social life.

Third and more contemporary would be if isolating for specific reasons caused a down turn.

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IDK man, sometimes living with women will make you go crazy.

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It seems Jeffrey Dahmer had the eloquent solution in this metaphor.

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Few things make men angrier than lack of women.

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Incels are often angry at women/the world and mentally unstable (comparative to non-incels). I donā€™t think there is a platonic friendship which could alleviate these effects.

Devisive opinion incoming: I think the ā€˜biological clockā€™ women tend to get around their late 20ā€™s/early 30ā€™s is better defined as ā€œbiological imperativeā€ā€¦ I think men have this as well, but starting as soon as they are mature enough to procreate.

BTW, I was joking about living with women making you go crazy. I mean, yeah - theyā€™ll make you go crazy, but not to the same degree that being an incel would. (Iā€™m married and have a 5y/o girl).

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He doesnt identify as incel. But anyway, I would imagine most men who are perpetually lonely and have no romantic experience would have mental issues like having aspergers syndrome, which this person seems to have based on my interactions with him.

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Frankly, it doesnā€™t matter if he identifies as an incel or not. If he tries to get laid but canā€™t - he is by default, Involuntarily Celibateā€¦ AKA an ā€œincelā€.

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You watched that Netflix show didnā€™t you?

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I see. So it is like someone who does not believe in God still saying he does not identify as an atheist because he sees atheists as too hostile.

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Well I was talking about men in as a group. Of course a man only needs one woman.

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Ehh yes and no. You choose what you believe, you donā€™t choose whether you are an incel or not. You either are, or arenā€™t, your feelings about it matter none.

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Btw, I am a former lonely incel with few friends. I will try to comment on your OP more considering it is a topic of large interest to me, understandably.

Ironically what keeps me from posting as much as I would like these days is that I am not lonely and have a jam packed schedule.

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I wrote a lengthy list of causes in another thread. I will try to find it later.

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I watched a few minutes of that, and a whole lot of what I was seeing was self fulfilling prophecy.

The guy with the long hair has a whole story figured out to his own satisfaction as to why women this, or why he is rejected- all being completely theoretical. But once heā€™s able to be around a woman, all of those preconceived notions will affect his actions, thus destroying any Real chance he may have had, and affirming the things he has already chosen to believe.

Thats at the core of it.

Being doughy, poorly kept, personally uninteresting and a crappy attitude certainly are factors too.

Heā€™ll fight a dragon for a fat girl or some nonsense but wont exercise, get a haircut that compliments his features, or do any of the many other things THAT HEā€™S PERFECTLY CAPABLE OF to be with one?

Please.

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