“I don’t feel anything,” a woman in her 40s once told me in therapy. No joy. No sadness. Just emptiness. She worked hard, raised her kids and rarely asked for help ‒ but something was always “off.” ...

In the mountains of Vermont, college student Sonia is racked with homesickness. Thousands of miles from her family in India, she finds companionship through an intimate relationship with an older man ...

Maureen Corrigan, book critic for NPR's Fresh Air, is The Nicky and Jamie Grant Distinguished Professor of the Practice in Literary Criticism at Georgetown University. She is an associate editor of ...

Due to changes in their health and social connections, older adults may be at a higher risk of experiencing loneliness and social isolation. However, some strategies can help manage these feelings.

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A Pittsburgh woman has sparked conversation online about the link between loneliness and the supposedly millennial habit of canceling plans, after her post about the emotional consequences of flaking ...

Lonely Christmas. Private Collection. Creator: Freiwirth-Lützow, Oskar (1862-1925). (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images via Getty Images) A comprehensive study of nearly 50,000 people across the ...

Ms. Hill is writing a book on loneliness. A few months ago, I broke up with my boyfriend. I told close friends but otherwise kept the news to myself. Or so I thought. Scrolling through Instagram in ...

Brendan Kelly does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

End points were measured from baseline to week 52. Values are derived from an analysis of variance for the treatment policy estimand (top part of table) and a mixed-model-for-repeated-measures ...

Loneliness has become a global public health concern. Countries including Britain and Japan have appointed “ministers of loneliness” to help tackle the problem. In the United States, then-Surgeon ...

Loneliness is increasingly recognized as one of the most serious global public health challenges of our time. From Japan’s Ministry of Loneliness to the U.S. Surgeon General’s call for social ...