Severe Loneliness in London – who’s most at risk, and why?

You can be lonely anywhere, but there is a particular flavour to the loneliness that comes from living in a city, surrounded by millions of people.

Loneliness—often a factor of social isolation—has become a societal epidemic in late capitalist societies.

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

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

• “The younger you are, the more likely you are now to feel lonely.” “Loneliness is now one of the most important problems our generation has to solve, alongside climate change and obesity.”


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