“Loneliness has followed me my whole life,” says Robert De Niro’s character, Travis Bickle, in Taxi Driver. “Everywhere. In bars, in cars, sidewalks, stores, everywhere. There’s no escape. I’m God’s ...

Research suggests loneliness and depression can reinforce each other, while social isolation has a more limited effect.

Even though I had friends, I was still lonely. My friends didn’t understand my reactions. There was a huge void inside me. These are some of the ways that people describe feeling alienated after ...

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.” ...

The Chicago-based creative explores loneliness, alienation and identity in his episodic feature that had its world premiere at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. By Georg Szalai Global ...

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 ...

“Loneliness is grief, distended,” writes The New Yorker, condensing timelessness, placelessness, circumstancelessness of feeling. In all the poetical gravity of these lines, to call loneliness an ...

The latest observer to sound the alarm about workplace loneliness is the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. The organization on Tuesday published a commentary calling on employers to take action to identify ...

Chronic loneliness is not only harmful to mental health but also to physical health. It has some other surprising consequences. We all need time alone, those moments to recharge, whether a few hours a ...

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 ...