[Lagged2Death]

I wish more commenters would read the article.

It's not about garden-variety, dictionary-definition, transient, intermittent, universially-felt-at-some-point sort of "loneliness" many of you assume it is.

It's about chronic loneliness, the loneliness of an orphan, the loneliness of a closeted homosexual, the loneliness of a retiree whose friends are all dead.

It's about loneliness as a force powerful enough to change the sufferer's genetic expression. It's really something.