Loneliness trajectories over three decades are associated with conspiracist worldviews in midlife - Nature Communications
Here, the authors show that elevated loneliness in adolescence and increasing loneliness over three decades is associated with heightened conspiracy beliefs in midlife.
Yes, those voices in your mind during the silent times are good multidimensional friends (unless you let the bad ones in) I spend a lot of time alone with my projects and then I get to share them. yes friends and social interaction are important, but alone time to improve ones self and reflect and to get stuff done is possibly more important. Loneliness if for those without a purpose and for the elderly who their families have abandoned :(