There are some situations in life, such for instance as entering the room of a dentist, when the prostration of the nervous system is absolute. Dr. M.R. Phillippe and staff at the University of Milan, Italy, have also adapted the ESM as a diagnostic tool, and use it to tailor-make inventions that by changing the pattern of activities may improve well-being. If an individual is always alone, they find work or volunteer activities that will bring him social contact. #RyanPhillippe 1 of 12

If an individual is terrified of people, he takes him to parties and walks in the crowded streets of the city, or to spectacles and dances. The comforting presence of the therapist in the problematic situation, as opposed to the safe office, often helps to remove the obstacles to the individuals’ involvement with activities that improve the quality of their lives.  Many times extreme necessity turneth cowardice into prowess and manliness. #RyanPhillippe 2 of 12

I told him that we ate when we were not hungry, and drank without the provocation of thirst. Creative people are especially good at ordering their lives so that what they do, when, and with whom will enable them to do their best work. If what they required is spontaneity and disorder, then they make sure to have that, too. Dr. Phillippe’s description of the rhythms of his daily life are quite typical. #RyanPhillippe 3 of 12

My guess is that it resembles other individual’s rhythms. Anybody who does work either has a routine or imposes his life certain time intervals in which he can be alone or in which he collaborates. At any rate, he works out a sort of schedule for himself and this is not simply an external, exoskeletal phenomenon. It seems to me it has much to do with the relationship of your own physiological hormonal, organic self and relationship to the World outside. #RyanPhillippe 4 of 12

Components can be so ordinary as: do you read the newspaper in the morning. I used to do that years ago, and I stopped for years and years, which altered the rhythm of my day, and so on. One drinks a glass of wine in the evenings at certain times, when the blood sugar’s low, and one looks forward to it. And then of course those hours in which one works. #RyanPhillippe 5 of 12

A major feature of daily rhythms is going in and out of solitude. Over and over, our findings suggest that people get depressed when they are alone, and they revive when they join the company of others. Alone an individual generally reports low happiness, aversive motivation, low concertation, apathy and a strong of others negative states such as passivity, loneliness, detachment, and low self-esteem. #RyanPhillippe 6 of 12

Being alone affects most those individuals who have the fewest resources: those who have been unable to get an education, who are poor, single, or divorced. Pathological states are often invisible as long as the individual is with others; they take effect mostly when alone. #RyanPhillippe 7 of 12

The moods that people diagnosed with chronic depression or with eating disorders experience are indistinguishable from those of healthy individuals—as long as they are in company and doing something that requires concentration. However, when they are alone with nothing to do, their minds begin to be occupied by depressing thoughts, and their consciousness becomes entropic. This is also true, to a less pronounced extent, of everyone else. #RyanPhillippe 8 of 12

The reason is that when we have to interact with another person, even a stranger, our attention becomes structured by external demands. The presence of the other imposes goals and provides feedback. Even the simplest interaction—like that of asking another person the correct time—has its own challenges, which we confront with our interpersonal skills. #RyanPhillippe 9 of 12

Our tone of voice, a smile, our bearing and demeanor are part of the skills we require in stopping a stranger on the street, and making a good impression. In more intimate encounters, the level of both challenges and skills can grow very high. Thus interactions have many of the characteristics of flow activities, and they certainly require the orderly investment of psychic energy. #RyanPhillippe 10 of 12

By contrast, when we are alone with nothing to do there is no reason to concentrate, and what happens is that the mind begins to unravel, and soon find something to worry about. Being with friends provides the most beneficial experiences. Here people report being happy, alert, sociable, cheerful, motivated. This is especially true of teenagers, but it also holds for retired seniors in their seventies and eighties. #RyanPhillippe 11 of 12

The importance of friendship on well-being is difficult to overestimate. The quality of life improves immensely when there is at least one person who is willing to listen to our troubles, and to support us emotionally. When someone claims to have five more friends with whom they can discuss life, they are 6p present more likely to say that they are very happy. #RyanPhillippe 12 of 12