Nearly 66K Rhode Islanders Spending Christmas Alone: Study

An awful lot of Rhode Islanders will be lonely this Christmas, a new study revealed.

65,583 Ocean Staters will spend the most wonderful time of the year by themselves, according to the study conducted by California mental health care provider A Mission For Michael.

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"Loneliness has quietly become one of America’s most widespread public-health issues — a chronic, grinding isolation that hits people year-round — but the holiday season magnifies everything," according to a media release accompanying the results of the study.

"December is saturated with images of togetherness: family dinners, matching pajamas, full houses and overflowing calendars,' the release said.

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"For anyone spending Christmas alone - whether through distance, estrangement, work schedules or recent life changes — that contrast can feel brutal," the release said. "Expectations about how Christmas “should” look turn private solitude into something that feels like failure, leaving many people dreading a day that is meant to feel joyful."

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Even with nearly 66,000 residents spending Christmas alone, Rhode Island will be far from the loneliest state this Christmas.

Rhode Island placed 38th on the A Mission For Michael list, less lonely than Kentucky but lonelier than Georgia.

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With the results ranked and weighted by total the population of each state, Wisconsin was the loneliest, followed by Tennessee and Louisiana.

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