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Helping Teens Cope with Loneliness

Helping Teens Cope with Loneliness
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Coping with loneliness is a very important skill on my list of needed independent living skills for teens because every teen I've ever known has needed it. It doesn't matter if they are going to college, starting a new job and moving into an apartment or getting married. Leaving your childhood home and being on your own for the first time will cause some level of loneliness. Teens who know how to recognize loneliness as the temporary feeling it is, use their support system and work through their loneliness do just fine... Source: About.com Parenting of Adolescents

Loneliness Cope Teens Helping

Do these genes make me lonely? Study finds loneliness is a heritable trait

Loneliness is linked to poor physical and mental health, and is an even more accurate predictor of early death than obesity. To better understand who is at risk, researchers conducted the first genome-wide association study for loneliness -- as a life-long trait, not a temporary state. They discovered that risk for feeling lonely is partially due to genetics, but environment plays a bigger role. Ref. Source 6k.

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That might explain why some people always seem to be in a dull moment and can't get out of it or are rather lonely. I always encourage such people to get out and do things… sports and the like.