Social Signaling: The missing ingredient in the treatment of chronic depression

Feeling happy is great—but when you are lonely—it’s hard to feel happy no matter how much you might try to accept, reappraise, or change your circumstances, keep busy, exercise, practice yoga, or distract yourself. In the long run, we are tribal beings—and we yearn to share our lives with other members of our species. It was what we were born to do.

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