9 Reasons Why You Feel Lonely

Loneliness is one of the most universal emotions of the human condition. But feeling lonely for a long period of time, also known as chronic loneliness, can be detrimental to your mental health. Are you wondering how to deal with loneliness? Well, in order to deal with depression and loneliness, we need to find out the root reasons why we feel lonely or even possibly depressed in the first place. Also, we made a previous video on 10 Things You're Emotions are Trying to Tell You here: https://youtu.be/qXCIb4O1PN0

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Other suggested video(s) to watch from us:

7 Signs You May Be Lonely
https://youtu.be/_VcHuQt3fYY
6 Types of Loneliness
https://youtu.be/KBZf-IkBavY
4 Reason Why You Feel Empty
https://youtu.be/_by5mfkBni4

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Writer: Chloe Avenasa
Script editor: Rida Batool & Kelly Soong
VO: Amanda Silvera
Animator: Cristina Benavides (new animator) (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdWkAGVNCOfdiywhJsTGR9Q)
YouTube manager: Cindy Cheong

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