This was Cacioppo’s question in the early 2000s. In one of many studies, he took 135 lonely people, divided them into groups A and B, and asked them to complete an in-depth personality test.⁣⁠ Group A was then hypnotised to remember periods of their life when they were lonely, and Group B to remember periods of their life when they were connected to a person or groups.⁣⁠ ⁣⁠ They were then asked to repeat the personality test.⁣⁠ ⁣⁠ The group that had ???????????????????????????? ???????? ???????????????????? ???????????????????????????????????????? ???????????????????????? ???????????????????????????????????????????????????? ???????????????? ???????????????????????????????????? and the group that had focused on connection became substantially LESS depressed.⁣⁠ ⁣⁠ What does it mean? It means that ???????????????????????????????????????? ???????????????????????????? ????????????????????????????????????????. Depression does not create loneliness. ⁣⁠