Loneliness is not the same as solitude. Posts on why we withdraw just when we most need people, and how connection slowly returns.
Headlines compare loneliness to fifteen cigarettes a day. What Julianne Holt-Lunstad's analyses actually measured, how loneliness affects the body, and why one quiet weekend is not dangerous.
ReadYou have a partner, a shared home and a full diary, and still feel alone. How emotional absence and parallel lives develop, and what can be done before the silence sets hard.
ReadWith a small child you are never alone, yet you can be very lonely. Why the old circle drifts away, how mothers and fathers experience it, and what you can do this…
ReadA job, a family, friends, and still the sense that nobody knows you. Why a full diary does not protect against loneliness, and what really counts in contact.
ReadLoneliness in old age is not caused by the years but by widowhood, retirement, poorer hearing and reduced mobility. What research says about help, and why “go and see people” rarely works.
ReadYou talk to people all day, then realise in the evening that you haven't really spoken to anyone. Where leaders' loneliness comes from and where to find a space to speak without…
ReadSolitude is a choice, loneliness a feeling, social isolation a fact. What will help depends on which of the three describes your situation.
ReadUnanswered messages, cancelled coffees, silence. Why depression and loneliness feed each other, what shame has to do with it, and how very small steps can break the cycle.
ReadYoung adults are among the loneliest age groups, even though they are among people and online all day. What the research shows, what part social media plays, and what helps.
ReadMen’s friendships rarely end in a quarrel; more often the framework that brought you together disappears. On shoulder-to-shoulder time, vulnerability and the one message it starts with.
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