Loneliness affects sleep, study says Feeling lonely can have a serious impact on the quality of sleep, a new study found lonely sleep restless . Researchers say sleep can be impacted whether you're sharing a bed with someone or not loneliness affects the heart, loneliness heart disease, and depression. Study suggests loneliness could compromise a good night’s rest, potentially affecting health Loneliness is not only heartbreaking, it breaks up a normal night’s sleep, a new study shows. Researchers say compromised sleep may be one pathway by which feelings of loneliness adversely affect our health. “It’s not just a product of very lonely individuals having poor sleep. The relationship between loneliness and restless sleep appears to operate across the range of perceived connectedness,” said lead author Lianne Kurina, PhD, of the Department of Health Studies at the University of Chicago. Kurina and her co-authors compared the degree of loneliness reported by a close-knit popula...