witnessing a decreasing trend and lack of such interactions only leads to depression lack of social drive has been linked to social isolation and poor mental health including the risk of psychosis in adolescence and early adulthood said germine a technical director of the mclean institute for technology in psychiatry also the harvard womens health watch reported dozens of studies have shown that people who have satisfying relationships with family friends and their community are happier have fewer health problems and live longer hence you might want to take some time off to make a call to that friend or a relative and think about reconnecting with them and spend time socialising