Feelings of isolation, alienation, aloneness and loneliness are pervasive in the twenty-first century. Scientific studies suggest some possible linkage between feelings of chronic loneliness and heart ...

Loneliness is defined as “a distressing feeling that accompanies the perception that one’s social needs are not being met by the quantity or especially the quality of one’s social relationships.” ...

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Visit NAP.edu/10766 to get more information about this book, to buy it in print, or to download it as a free PDF. 4 The survey did not inquire about what kind of loneliness participants felt and ...

There are books you admire, books you enjoy, and then there are books that quietly rearrange your inner furniture. Haruki Murakami’s 'Norwegian Wood' belongs firmly in the last category for me. I ...

The loneliness epidemic isn’t slowing, in fact, the rates are alarmingly increasing, particularly in Black and LGBTQ+ folks. Tragically, the progress our country has made over the past several decades ...