{"id":442,"date":"2017-03-31T06:30:27","date_gmt":"2017-03-31T16:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/?p=442"},"modified":"2017-03-30T16:17:32","modified_gmt":"2017-03-31T02:17:32","slug":"loneliness-and-sickness-interesting-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/31\/loneliness-and-sickness-interesting-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Loneliness and Sickness &#8212; Interesting Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/health-shots\/2017\/03\/30\/521927344\/lonely-people-report-more-severe-cold-symptoms-study-finds\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/health-shots\/2017\/03\/30\/521927344\/lonely-people-report-more-severe-cold-symptoms-study-finds<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Considering the topic of my last blog <a href=\"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/30\/perception-and-depression-color\/\" target=\"_blank\">post<\/a>\u00a0finding this article was very interesting. I&#8217;ve often wondered how much of an impact depression and loneliness has on general health and recovery. While the idea of positive mental attitude when ill has been around for a very long time, it was refreshing to see a recent study.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t necessarily think that the study and its methodology aren&#8217;t without fault but I think people who are already experiencing loneliness\u00a0could perceive illness as another indicator of isolation. For me in some ways I view the solitude and depression when I&#8217;m ill as just another layer that affects my ability to interact with others. Either way it&#8217;s an additional reminder that I have to be more mindful of my health than perhaps some other folks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/health-shots\/2017\/03\/30\/521927344\/lonely-people-report-more-severe-cold-symptoms-study-finds Considering the topic of my last blog post\u00a0finding this article was very interesting. I&#8217;ve often wondered how much of an impact depression and loneliness has on general health and recovery. While the idea of positive mental attitude when ill has been around for a very long time, it was refreshing to see a recent &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/31\/loneliness-and-sickness-interesting-study\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Loneliness and Sickness &#8212; Interesting Study&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":443,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13,2],"tags":[5],"class_list":["post-442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog-slice","category-depression","tag-health"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/medical-e1490926048876.jpg?fit=1273%2C556","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7PG4O-78","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=442"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":444,"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442\/revisions\/444"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}