Mental-health services must understand how loneliness, shame, rejection, digital alienation and certain ideologies converge ...

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 ...

In the critically acclaimed The Lonely City (2017), the writer Olivia Laing extolled the pleasures as well as the pains of loneliness, identifying loneliness as a creative enterprise as well as a ...

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 often seen as a modern epidemic—fueled by social media, digital detachment, and the fast pace of urban life. But the truth is, loneliness isn’t new. It has always been a part of the ...

A Booker shortlist, a small press wave, a generation of writers in their thirties. Loneliness has become the quiet centre of ...

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 impact of loneliness on health is supposedly equivalent to 13 cigarettes a day. It’s certainly one of the most pernicious destroyers of life, and it’s apparently on the increase. Yet often it is ...