There’s growing scientific consensus that loneliness can negatively affect your health. Scientists and researchers from the U.K. and the Netherlands recently unveiled new research identifying a number ...

Experts increasingly warn that chronic loneliness may influence stress, inflammation, heart health and even life expectancy ...

What has alarmed public health experts is the growing evidence that loneliness affects physical health as much as mental well ...

Scientists have long known that loneliness is emotionally painful and can lead to psychiatric disorders like depression, anxiety, schizophrenia, and even hallucinatory delirium. But only recently have ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Zoë Petersen, Deseret News The World Health Organization has established a Commission on Social Connection, making understanding ...

Social isolation and loneliness are widespread problems in the U.S., posing a serious threat to our mental and physical health, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Last year, ...

THANK YOU. KELLY ANN FIVE ON YOUR MENTAL HEALTH. IT’S A STARTLING STATISTIC. A RECENT SURGEON GENERAL’S REPORT FOUND 73% OF YOUNG PEOPLE, YOUNG ADULTS, TEENS, STRUGGLE WITH FEELINGS OF LONELINESS AND ...

Isolation is not our normal state. That fact has become abundantly clear these past few months as we have been relegated to socializing less frequently and using virtual means when we do. And while ...

A decade after The Lonely City was first published, the writer reflects on what’s changed – and how the feelings that drove them to write their bestseller are key to understanding our turbulent politi ...

Adolescents who experience both loneliness and low resilience are much more susceptible to developing anxiety and depression as adults. It has long been known that loneliness is a risk factor in the ...

Japan on April 1 enacted a law to prevent loneliness and isolation, problems that affect an estimated 39 percent of the ...