added by Jonathan Simcoe · updated 2y ago
How Loneliness Is Damaging Our Health
Loneliness, as defined by mental health professionals, is a gap between the level of connectedness that you want and what you have. It is not the same as social isolation, which is codified in the social sciences as a measure of a person’s contacts. Loneliness is a subjective feeling. People can have a lot of contact and still be lonely, or be perf
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Jonathan Simcoe added 8mo ago
This definition makes lots of sense but also makes loneliness hard to explain or quantify.A paradox: People are more connected now than ever — through phones, social media, Zoom and such — yet loneliness continues to rise. Among the most digitally connected, teenagers and young adults, loneliness nearly doubled in prevalence between 2012 and 2018, coinciding with the explosion in social media use.AdvertisementContinue reading the main s
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Jonathan Simcoe added 8mo ago