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  1. May 15, 2021 · Basically: Loneliness will kill you. Lonely people are more likely to have heart attacks and cancer and alcoholism and even common colds. Loneliness can make you assume the worst in others and see ...

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  2. Jul 13, 2021 · Loneliness is a problem in cities full of people. Solitude is a silent killer that affects the elderly as well as the young. Feeling ostracized can make some people cry and retreat into themselves ...

  3. Oct 25, 2024 · U.S. surgeon general Vivek Murthy placed a spotlight on America’s problem with loneliness when he declared the issue an epidemic last year. Murthy explained, in a letter that introduced an urgent advisory, that loneliness is far more than “just a bad feeling” and represents a major public health risk for both individuals and society ...

  4. Jul 16, 2021 · Illustrations by Kristen Radtke / Courtesy Pantheon. Loneliness is a poetic feeling, as agreeably melancholic to behold from a distance as it is terrible to experience up close. By one account, it ...

  5. Jul 29, 2024 · Book review. The Age of Loneliness: Essays. By Laura Marris Graywolf Press: 208 pages, $18 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees ...

  6. Jul 13, 2021 · In this book, she sets out to tackle the somewhat less theoretical subject of American loneliness, rooting the exploration in her own experience as a Midwest preteen in the late nineties seeking connection through the internet, stories about her father operating a ham radio in his own youth, and her time living in Las Vegas and New York City, weaving in more journalistic sections that touch ...

  7. Jul 29, 2021 · One prominent theory posits that, biologically, loneliness has an essential function: to stimulate an itch that needs to be scratched, to make sure we “feel deeply troubled when we observe minor ...

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