1) Loneliness is isolation from society.
Loneliness is not the same as being alone. Loneliness is disconnection from the world around you, it's the feeling that no one around you understands you, and you have no real, meaningful relationships with people.

2) An epidemic of loneliness is now rampant in the world.
Loneliness is certainly getting more attention, but it doesn't follow that the percentage of lonely people has increased compared to years or decades past.

Using data from studies dating back to 1948, Christina Victor of Brunel University in London found that the proportion of older people experiencing chronic loneliness has remained the same over the past 70 years (6 to 13 percent admitted to feeling either always or most of the time lonely).

3) Loneliness is always bad
People suffer from loneliness. The good thing, however, is that this condition is often only temporary and far from always negative. It can signal to us that it is time to make new friends or try to find a way to improve existing relationships.
While loneliness is usually a temporary condition, it is also true that when it becomes chronic, the consequences can be severe. There is evidence that it affects our sense of well-being, can impair sleep, and leads to despondency.

4) Loneliness leads to health problems.
This myth is a little more difficult to deal with. You may have encountered the statistics, according to which loneliness is detrimental to health: almost three times the risk of heart disease and stroke, singles have higher blood pressure and lower life expectancy.
All this is quite serious, but many of these studies take only a short time interval, and we cannot speak with certainty about the inevitable onset of severe consequences of loneliness.

5) Most older people suffer from loneliness
People experience loneliness in old age more often than in other periods of their adult lives. But as Pamela Qualter of the University of Manchester found in her review of scientific research on loneliness at different ages, there is another peak of this condition - during adulthood, during adolescence.
Meanwhile, studies show that 50-60 percent of older people quite rarely experience loneliness.