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I dont think it makes sense to draw a causal attribution from loneliness.

It seems like these would both be related symptoms of a shared cause.

Also, I dont know when the loneliness epidemic kicks in, but I usually hear about it in terms of adults. Are teens also increasingly lonely?

Yeah, younger generations are spending less and less time with friends in person [1] and feeling lonelier and lonelier as a result [2].