Solitude can improve mental and emotional health. Did you know?
You may have only read articles that tell you that you should socialize, be around people, to feel better mentally and spiritually.
In fact, solitude can also be beneficial and restore calm and awareness to those who need it.
Even solitude has physical and emotional benefits, such as reducing stress and regulating mood, and can even lead to increased creativity and productivity.
It is therefore not only a risk factor for cardiovascular disease, stroke, depression and for the immune system.
Loneliness, in fact, is a real need. A psychologist from Carleton University in Ottawa talks about the phenomenon that occurs when people have less solitude than they should.
Getting some alone time For most of us it's important to have a balance between alone time and social time. If this balance is missing, you may experience moments of frustration, suffering, irritability or outright anger.