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How Loneliness Is Damaging Our Health
If someone becomes chronically lonely, however, those same feelings of distress can compound and have the opposite effect, encouraging people to shut down and further isolate themselves.
Brad Stulberg • The Practice of Groundedness
The bottom line is that young people are suffering greatly. They seem to be lacking in the tools, skills, and ability to find solutions to these difficult issues. To befriend, to bond, to connect, to self-soothe, to find joy. To create community. They are seemingly cut off from what nourishes them, suffering from diseases of despair, and oftentimes
... See moreRainn Wilson • Soul Boom: Why We Need a Spiritual Revolution
Loneliness isn’t the physical absence of other people, he said—it’s the sense that you’re not sharing anything that matters with anyone else.
Johann Hari • Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression – and the Unexpected Solutions
Some of the most valuable evidence comes in the form of detailed time-use records from the US and UK, which show a marked increase in time spent alone among teens and young adults over the past decade, but little to no change for older groups. Most impor-tantly, this diary data also captures how people are feeling over the course of their day as th... See more
In 2023, Wang et al. published a meta-analysis on social isolation, loneliness, and mortality. Looking at 90 prospective cohort studies that included over 2 million individuals, they found a significant association between social isolation, loneliness, and an increased risk in what they term, all-cause mortality. This systematic review and meta-ana... See more