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Researchers are working on a pill for loneliness, as studies suggest the condition is worse than obesity
For some, the idea is just another sign of the creeping medicalization of everyday human woes: Is it really the best we can do to fix the loneliness ‘epidemic’?
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The Loneliness of the Internet Troll
Loneliness is a powerful psychological, emotional and behavioral state, associated with significant risks to mental and physical health. Online trolling is a huge and growing problem, as well. According to the Pew Research Center (Online Harassment, 2017
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On average, older adults spend over half their waking hours alone
Americans 60 and older spend about seven waking hours a day alone. This rises to over 10 hours a day among those living on their own.
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Police are tackling elderly isolation with benches created to get strangers to chat
One English police department is trying a new, creative way to tackle isolation and loneliness among elderly people. Starting with a simple bench. The Avon and Somerset Police Department set up "chat benches" in two local parks in southwest England meant to spark conversation between residents. The benches feature a friendly sign that reads, "Sit here if you don't mind someone stopping to say hello!"
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Preliminary Evidence That Lonely People Lose The Reflex To Mimic Other People’s Smiles, Potentially Sustaining Their Isolation
Loneliness is a “disease”, associated with an increased risk of death equivalent to smoking 15 cigarettes a day. Strides have been made in understanding what form of loneliness is damaging (a lack of close relationships with other people, rather than a lack of relationships per se), but ways to tackle loneliness are badly needed.
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Loneliness in America Is Caused by Our Broken Culture
A lot of our cultural problems are issues with no clear government or policy solution. But they represent huge problems nonetheless.
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A Solution for Loneliness
Get out and volunteer, research suggests
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How To Enjoy Being Alone: When You Start These 5 Things Will Happen
This new article will show you everything you need to know about how to enjoy being alone. A huge number of people around the world hates being alone.
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Can you buy a cure for loneliness?
Coworking spaces, friendship apps, and adult dorms are selling human connection.
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Extreme loneliness or the perfect balance? How to work from home and stay healthy
More and more people are working where they live, attracted by the promise of flexibility, efficiency and no commute. But does this come at a cost to their wellbeing?
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Human Contact Is Now a Luxury Good
Bill Langlois has a new best friend. She is a cat named Sox. She lives on a tablet, and she makes him so happy that when he talks about her arrival in his life, he begins to cry. All day long, Sox and Mr. Langlois, who is 68 and lives in a low-income senior housing complex in Lowell, Mass., chat. Mr. Langlois worked in machine operations, but now he is retired. With his wife out of the house most of the time, he has grown lonely.
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How To Deal With Loneliness: Actionable 15 Tips For Lonely People
Scientists have discovered 12 new natural satellites around Jupiter. According to CNN, scientists have made a new discovery within the scope of the study, which was created to detect the solar system’s nesting planet. Scientists believe that there is another planet in the edge of the solar system.
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The Effects of Solitary Confinement on the Brain
There is a difference between loneliness (the imposition of social isolation) and aloneness (the choice of being alone), and thus the brain reacts in very different ways. Loneliness, or social isolation, affecting a large part of the population as it became an epidemic in the last few years, is known to cause changes in the brain, possibly leading to more serious consequences such as depression and other mood disorders.
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Smartphone dependency linked to reduced relationship satisfaction in college students
People who feel psychologically dependent on their smartphone also tend to be less happy with their romantic relationship, according to research published in Psychology of Popular Media Culture. “My primary area of interest is children and advertising but a couple of years ago I conducted a study working with some undergraduate students where we looked at smartphone use/dependency and relationship attitudes.
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Study: Loneliness Is Common in US, Wisdom May Curb It
Emerging research discovers loneliness is more prevalent than expected and may wax and wane throughout an adult’s life. Although feeling lonely is linked to a host of mental and physical issues, investigators did not discover an association with serious illness and found that wisdom appears to mitigate loneliness.
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More research says Facebook can cause depression, this time among millennials
Spending too much time on “social media” sites like Facebook is making people more than just miserable. It may also be making them depressed. A new study looked at 504 millennials who actively use Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and/or Snapchat, individuals who met the criteria for a major depressive disorder scored higher on the “Social Media Addiction” scale.
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Opinion | How Loneliness Is Tearing America Apart
When people have a hole in their life, they often fill it with angry politics.
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A Research Revealed Using Less Social Media Make You Feel Less Lonely
Limiting the utilization of social media Instagram, Facebook and Snapchat directly leads to reductions in loneliness and depression, per a recent study revealed by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania. The study is titled “No more FOMO: Limiting Social Media Decreases Loneliness and Depression,” and as a part of it, researchers determined 143 college boy students over 3 weeks.
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The YouTube stars heading for burnout: ‘The most fun job imaginable became deeply bleak’
When Matt Lees became a full-time YouTuber, he felt as if he had won the lottery. As a young, ambitious writer, director and presenter, he was able to create low-budget, high-impact films that could reach a worldwide audience, in a way that would have been impossible without the blessing of television’s gatekeepers just a few years earlier. In February 2013, he had his first viral hit, an abridged version of Sony’s announcement of its PlayStation 4 video game console, dubbed with a cheerily acerbic commentary. Within days the video had been watched millions of times.
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Loneliness is pervasive and rising, particularly among the young
Smartphones and social media are blamed, but moderate use can be beneficial
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