Social media makes connecting easier than ever but loneliness is rising, affecting approximately 33% of people worldwide. For some, loneliness is temporary. For others, it might stem from remoteness ...

Is loneliness a health hazard? Psychologists believe it is, though people may overlook it. "Loneliness has very real and significant impacts on mental and physical health, social support systems and ...

A woman has set up a community for women to make friends after sharing her story of post-university loneliness online. Alanis ...

Give me a child until he is seven and I will show you the man,” the Greek philosopher Aristotle famously once said. He meant that those formative years are the most important – that the way we raise ...

You may have already seen the headlines: loneliness is an epidemic. As a Gallup poll reported in October 2024, 20% of U.S. adults reported feeling “lonely a lot of the day yesterday,” an increase of ...

One in six Americans feel lonely or isolated most of the time. This finding comes from a survey conducted in September 2024 by the Pew Research Center, which queried over 6,200 adults in English and ...

Loneliness can be a risk factor for many mental and physical health challenges, including unhealthy eating habits and obesity. Now a new study suggests that alterations in the lonely brain may be why ...