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The Ohio State survey results belie the nation’s ongoing epidemic of loneliness and isolation. The mental health paradox: Amid the loneliness epidemic, most say they need alone time to feel ...
Gallup’s data comes months after U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy declared loneliness and isolation a national epidemic, calling it an urgent public health issue.
The loneliness epidemic is an ongoing trend of loneliness and social isolation experienced by people across the globe. [1] [2] The uptick may have begun in the 2010s and was exacerbated by the isolating effects of social distancing, stay-at-home orders, and deaths during the COVID-19 pandemic. [1] [3]
Experts believed the findings could bring more understanding to the link between loneliness and mental health conditions such as anxiety disorders. Emily Towner, who led the study, said people ...
Social isolation and loneliness in older adults is associated with an increased risk for poor mental and physical health and increased mortality. [66] [67] There is an increased risk for early mortality in individuals experiencing social isolation compared to those who are not socially isolated. [68]
Isolation and loneliness are an epidemic as damaging to Americans' individual and public health as smoking and obesity, the surgeon general said in an advisory.
Indeed, the feeling of loneliness is more strongly related to having mental health problems than objective social isolation. [21] Younger people are also affected by social isolation. Hefner and Eisenberg conducted a study among college students to evaluate the relationship between social support and mental health. [22]
He started to wonder if the story he had always heard about gay men and mental health was incomplete. When the disparity first came to light in the ’50s and ’60s, doctors thought it was a symptom of homosexuality itself, just one of many manifestations of what was, at the time, known as “sexual inversion.”