Why Social Health Is Key to Happiness and Longevity | Kasley Killam | TED · TED
本视频探讨社交健康对整体幸福和长寿的重要性。通过真实案例揭示，仅关注身体和心理健康是不够的，缺乏社交联系会加剧压力，影响生活质量。适合练习情感与成长类话题。
So a couple of years ago, a woman I know who I'll call Maya,
几年前，我认识一位女士，我就叫她玛雅吧。
went through a lot of big changes in a short amount of time.
在很短的时间内经历了许多重大的变化。
She got married.
她结婚了。
She and her husband moved for his job to a new city where she didn’t know anyone.
她和丈夫为了他的工作搬到了一个新的城市，在那里她一个人都不认识。
She started a new role working from home, all while managing her dad's new diagnosis of dementia.
她开始了一份新的工作，需要在家办公；同时，她还要应对父亲被诊断出患有痴呆症这一突发情况。
And to manage the stress of all this change, Maya doubled down on her physical and mental health.
为了应对这些变化带来的压力，玛雅更加重视自己的身心健康。
She exercised almost every day, she ate healthy foods, she went to therapy once a week.
她几乎每天都会锻炼身体，饮食也很健康，每周还会去接受一次心理治疗。
And these actions really helped.
这些措施确实起到了帮助作用。
Her body got stronger.
她的身体变得更强壮了。
Her mind got more resilient, but only up to a point.
她的心理承受能力确实增强了，但这种增强也是有限度的。
She was still struggling, often losing sleep in the middle of the night, feeling unfocused, unmotivated during the day.
她仍在与各种问题作斗争：经常在半夜无法入睡，白天则感到注意力不集中、缺乏动力。
Maya was doing everything that doctors typically tell us to do to be physically and mentally healthy, and yet something was missing.
玛雅一直在做医生们通常建议我们做的那些有助于保持身心健康的事情，但似乎还是缺少了些什么。
What if I told you that what was missing for Maya is also missing for billions of people around the world,
如果我告诉你：玛雅所缺少的东西，其实也是全世界数十亿人都在缺少的东西，你会怎么想？
and that it might be missing for you?
也许这个东西对你来说确实“缺失”了（即你没有它）。
What if I told you that not having it undermines our other efforts to be healthy and can even shorten your lifespan?
如果我告诉你：缺乏某种东西会削弱我们为保持健康所做出的其他努力，甚至可能缩短你的寿命，你会怎么想？
I’ve been studying this for over a decade, and I've discovered that the traditional way we think about health is incomplete.
我研究这个课题已经十多年了，我发现我们传统的健康观念存在缺陷（或者说这种观念是不完整的）。
By thinking of our health as primarily physical and mental, we overlook what I believe is the greatest challenge and the greatest opportunity of our time.
如果我们仅仅将健康视为身体和心理方面的状况，那么我们就忽视了我认为这个时代所面临的最大挑战，同时也是最大的机遇。
Social health.
社会健康。
While physical health is about our bodies and mental health is about our minds, social health is about our relationships.
虽然身体健康与我们的身体有关，心理健康与我们的心理状态有关，但社会健康则与我们的人际关系密切相关。
And if you haven't heard this term before, that's because it hasn't yet made its way into mainstream vocabulary,
如果你之前从未听说过这个术语，那是因为它还没有被纳入主流词汇中。
yet it is equally important.
然而，这同样非常重要。
Maya didn't yet have a sense of community in her new home.
在新的家中，玛雅还没有建立起一种属于“社区”的归属感。
She wasn't seeing her family, or her friends or her coworkers in person anymore, and she often went weeks only spending quality time with her husband.
她不再与家人、朋友或同事面对面交流；很多时候，她整个星期都只能和丈夫一起度过有质量的时光。
Her story shows us that we can't be fully healthy, we can’t thrive, if we take care of our bodies and our minds,
她的故事告诉我们：如果我们不照顾好自己的身体和心灵，就无法真正实现健康或获得幸福。
but not our relationships.
但我们的关系却不会因此受到影响。
Similar to Maya, hundreds of millions of people around the world go weeks at a time without talking to a single friend or family member.
与玛雅人类似，全世界有数亿人连续数周时间都没有与任何朋友或家人说过话。
Globally, one in four people feel lonely.
在全球范围内，每四个人中就有一人感到孤独。
And 20 percent of adults worldwide don't feel like they have anyone they can reach out to for support.
全球有 20% 的成年人觉得他们身边没有人可以寻求支持。
Think about that.
好好想想吧。
One in five people you encounter may feel like they have no one.
你遇到的每五个人中，就可能有一个人觉得自己孤独无依（即觉得自己没有人可以依靠）。
This is more than heartbreaking.
这不仅仅是令人心碎的事情……
It's also a public health crisis.
这同时也是一场公共卫生危机。
Disconnection triggers stress in the body.
身体与外界的“断开连接”会引发压力反应。
It weakens people's immune systems.
它会削弱人们的免疫系统。
It puts them at a risk, greater risk, of stroke, heart disease, diabetes, dementia, depression and early death.
这使他们面临更大的风险——中风、心脏病、糖尿病、痴呆症、抑郁症以及早逝的风险。
Social health is essential for longevity.
社交健康对延长寿命至关重要。
So you might be wondering, what does it look like to be socially healthy?
那么你可能会想知道：拥有良好的社交健康状态到底是什么样的呢？
What does that even mean?
这到底是什么意思？
Well it’s about developing close relationships with your family, your friends, your partner, yourself.
其实，关键在于与家人、朋友、伴侣以及自己建立亲密的关系。
It's about having regular interaction with your coworkers, your neighbors.
关键在于与同事、邻居保持定期的交流互动。