Because of how sleep impacts our ability to connect with others, sleep loss causes social withdrawal and loneliness.
Here’s the science.
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The more time you dedicate to catchingzzzs, theoretically, the less is left for socializing.
Were learning now that the health of social relationships depends on good sleep.
epidemiologist and chair of the Department of Public Health Sciences at The University of Chicago
But were learning now that the health of social relationshipsalsodepends on good sleep.
and Do you feel like you dont have anyone to talk to?
It has to do with whether youfeellike you are socially connected to others who understand and support you.
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Sleep loss seems to make our brains, to some degree, more selfish or self-centered.
We struggle to do anything that involves taking another persons perspective when were sleep-deprived.
We are really not able to leave our own private spheres.
epidemiologist and chair of the Department of Public Health Sciences at The University of Chicago
The result is poorer, if any, engagement and communication in social relationships of all sorts.
Good sleep, by contrast, is a social lubricant.
(Cue:major FOMO.)
But in actuality, sleep isnt alossfor your social life; its aninvestment, she says.
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