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Stress management is a constant topic in modern society. In fact, McEwan (1999) estimated that “stress and stress-related disorders take an annual economic toll of nearly $200 billion in the United States alone”. According to Floyd et al. (2007), “expressing affection can be instrumental in alleviating acute stress” (p.123), the AET ...
In 2023, the U.S. Surgeon General published an advisory warning that America was in the throes of a loneliness epidemic. It continues to persist, with Google Trends reporting that “how to cope ...
D. W. Winnicott in his article of that name (1958/64) highlighted the importance of the capacity to be alone, distinguishing it from both withdrawal and loneliness, and seeing it as derived from an internalisation of the non-intrusive background presence of a mothering figure. [2]
Emotion work is understood as the art of trying to change in degree or quality an emotion or feeling. [1]Emotion work may be defined as the management of one's own feelings, or work done in an effort to maintain a relationship; [2] there is dispute as to whether emotion work is only work done regulating one’s own emotion, or extends to performing the emotional work for others.
Loneliness is, clearly, not unique to the male half of the population (and in fact men tend to underreport loneliness compared to women). Yet its effects can be more extreme in men.
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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 .
Still, even as we celebrate the scale and speed of this change, the rates of depression, loneliness and substance abuse in the gay community remain stuck in the same place they’ve been for decades. Gay people are now, depending on the study, between 2 and 10 times more likely than straight people to take their own lives.