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Subscriber only Australia is facing a hidden epidemic of loneliness, which is driving up rates of depression and anxiety and causing people to die years before they should. With hundreds of thousands of people feeling desperately alone, researchers and mental health professionals are sharpening their focus on the negative effects of loneliness, which have been magnified by the COVID-19 lockdowns across Australia. Experts say loneliness can be as bad for your health as smoking, and that people can literally die from it. Yet health campaigns which seek to improve people s mental and physical health by boosting their social connections remain ad hoc.
Nobody was talking about this : Australia s hidden epidemic
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Nobody was talking about this : Australia s hidden epidemic
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Nobody was talking about this : Australia s hidden epidemic
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