Tag: social connection
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Loneliness, not mental illness, is what’s actually epidemic
The mental health crisis narrative misses the real driver: a sustained collapse in social connection. Loneliness now correlates with outcomes worse than smoking.
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The loneliness epidemic framing misses what’s actually wrong
The loneliness epidemic has become a tidy diagnosis, but it obscures the structural changes driving disconnection. Here’s what the framing gets wrong.