It can make you sick, destroy your sleep, raise your blood pressure, and shorten your life. Loneliness isn’t just a momentary pang—it’s a chronic emotional ache that affects up to 15 percent of us. So who are all the lonely people, and where do they all come from? Answers are finally on the way, now that loneliness is beginning to get the research attention it deserves. O reports on what one expert called “the Antarctica of the soul.”  Click Here to read full article.