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The Whole Planet View

By Rosalind Watts, Sam Gandy, Alex Evans — 2019

Psychedelics offer a sense of expansive connectedness, just like astronauts have felt looking back to Earth from space.

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Emotional Detachment: What It Is and How to Overcome It

Emotional detachment is an inability or unwillingness to connect with other people on an emotional level. For some people, being emotionally detached helps protect them from unwanted drama, anxiety, or stress.

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Kimberly Holland
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An Expert Explains Why You Feel So Lonely All the Time

We're living in what you might call an epidemic of loneliness. Recent research has shown that many of the people we feel close to probably don't reciprocate the feeling.

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Annie Vainshtein
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How I Stopped Feeling So Lonely and Disconnected

My whole existence could be described in two words: inadequate and lonely. I remember one day walking down the hall in school. I was so tense that I couldn’t seem to walk straight. I felt like I was a prisoner in my own body and mind. There was me, and then the rest of the world.

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Charles A. Francis
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Combating an Epidemic of Loneliness

Humans can survive three minutes without air, three days without water, three weeks without food and — according to survival lore — three months without companionship. Whether true or not, what’s clear is that people need people.

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Emily Sohn
2020
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Social Isolation’s High Physical and Psychological Toll

Studies of polar researchers, astronauts, and others in isolation shed light on possible effects of social distancing, including increased forgetfulness, depression and heart attacks.

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Betsy Morris
2020
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