"There are people who don't interact as much as other people but feel content about it and aren't lonely." Yet the difficulty about self-reported degrees of lo

"There are people who don't interact as much as other people but feel content about it and aren't lonely." Yet the difficulty about self-reported degrees of loneliness, is that it doesn’t tell you how resilient a person’s contentedness is. Put that person in a crisis situation, like a suddenly precarious financial situation or a serious illness, and they might feel that they desperately crave human contact and were masking it before.