Adults who go to bed lonely get stress hormone boost next morning

Going to bed lonely and anxious doesn't just suck, it affects our physiology.

Imagine going to bed lonely in a stainless steel cage the size a bathroom stall every single day of your life. Imagine that those rest periods are interspersed with frightening and painful experiments. Imagine that all of this happens years after you were ripped from your mother and left to grow up alone with nothing but a rag doll to comfort you. Quite a bit worse than going to bed lonely, eh?

Dysregulated coreticosteroid levels and circadian cycles are frequently observed among social primates who are housed in isolation in vivisection labs. If we embrace bidirectional inference, as science would dictate we should, then might we deduce that loneliness is also a factor for the nonhuman primates?

Maternal deprivation has been correlated with these patterns before, but if the social trauma is ongoing it would seem that multiple factors would likely play a role.

Adults who go to bed lonely get stress hormone boost next morning