When the BBC launched the Loneliness Experiment on Valentine's Day 2018 a staggering 55,000 people from around the world completed the survey, making it the largest study of loneliness yet.

Nov. 10, 2024 Over the summer, Laura Marciano, a researcher at Harvard, interviewed 500 teenagers for a continuing study investigating the link between technology and loneliness. The results were ...

Wow. That’s why Surgeon General Vivek Murthy says the United States is in the throes of a loneliness “epidemic”. If a leader is grappling with loneliness, it’ll effect not only themselves ...

If you could take a pill to “cure” your loneliness, would you take it? The so-called “loneliness epidemic” has been widely reported and commented upon across the world in recent years, affecting young ...

Dr. Tracy Brower writes about happiness and the future of work. You’ve heard about the loneliness epidemic, and it is real. Significant numbers of people feel distant, disconnected and depressed ...

Loneliness is a peculiarly modern phenomenon, and it’s on the rise in America. Despite the countless ways to connect online, we are still more disconnected today than ever. National statistics ...

And, arguably, his words could be just as relevant when it comes to what has been dubbed the “male loneliness epidemic”. The way we bring up boys seems to create lonely men; the negative ...

Since the Covid pandemic, many more people have started to feel lonely – we know that stress, change, and isolation, can all trigger loneliness. We are committed to helping people affected by ...

We provide local support services, workshops and resources to help you deal with and overcome loneliness. More than 9 million people in the UK say they feel lonely some or most of the time. So if ...

Political differences seem to be making a contribution to a larger problem, something the U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy has referred to as a "loneliness ... like Laura Budd, a Democratic ...

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