Re:You're not uncool. Making friends as an adult is just hard
by baby on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @05:34PM
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This really doesn’t sound like a healthy ideal to me, and if I remember correctly there was this paper that would detect elevated risk of suicides by analyzing social graphs and finding nodes that weren’t part of any cliques. So that should imply that this is not good for anyone.
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Re:You're not uncool. Making friends as an adult is just hard
by rjh29 on Thursday April 20, 2023 @01:16AM
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What percentage of those people want more friends or friendship time than they have access to? What percentage have a mental illness like depression or anxiety, or alcoholism that would cause them to spend more time alone?
I'm open to the idea that my suicide risk is higher by not having a large group support network, but I enjoy being alone and I enjoy 1:1 time enormously more than being in groups, and overall I think my quality of life is higher with this choice. Everyone is different of course.