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We Need To Treat The Loneliness Epidemic
Understanding the symptoms is the first step to finding a cure.
All day, we can’t help but feel alone in the most connected society on earth. We’ve normalized looking down at our phones, talking to each other on a screen, and wondering if we’ll ever experience human interaction again.
It’s become an epidemic of sorts, with over half of Americans reportedly feeling isolated & lonely. Yet despite loneliness sucking the life out of each of us, we’re not treating it with the urgency it deserves.
We’ve become perpetually trapped in a machine that gets us to ignore an essential part of life: human connection.
Instead of having meaningful conversations, we stare down at our phones while hanging out with friends, desperately hoping for a “like” on our latest Instagram post to reinforce social validation.
Or while sitting down at the dinner table, our families scroll through their social media feed to see what each other has accomplished during the day.
It’s ironic how none of us are alone in being lonely. Although we’re on a planet of 7.8 billion people, many of us are struggling to find the human connection that we so desperately crave.
