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Solitary TV dinners for one, quiet hours spent with a book in the bath, sleeping solo or simply roaming around a desperately silent house. If you have a busy family life and a thriving social circle, it’s likely this alone time is much-needed bliss. But for the millions of people in the UK who are suffering from loneliness, solitude is a frequent source of misery that can be crippling. In fact, lack of social connection can be seriously bad for our health – and equal to smoking 15 cigarettes a day. So isn’t it time we tackled the problem of loneliness?
The loneliness epidemic
As a nation, we are getting lonelier – the number of