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Social networked friendship quality can be means of combating loneliness

From Times Sources
Posted 11/30/24

FAYETTEVILLE — Loneliness is on the rise in the U.S., with a third of Americans reporting they’ve experienced “serious loneliness” in recent years. Lonely people are twice as likely to become depressed, and loneliness is a key risk factor for self-harm and suicide, perhaps playing a role in the record number of suicides in the U.S. in 2023 — more than 50,000.

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