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Loneliness is the state where our desire or expectation for meaningful human connection is not being met. We can feel alone in a crowd of people if we feel unseen or unheard; we can feel alone even with regular social media communication due to the lack of human contact or confirming body language that we are welcome, accepted, and interesting. Loneliness is often accompanied by thoughts of being unwanted, undesirable, and unworthy, and when we start believing those thoughts, the loneliness becomes self-perpetuating. Prolonged feelings of isolation and disconnection have direct impacts on our physical health, which is why it is so important to balance out our thought patterns and find a way through it.

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Exile Returned

Agha Shahid Ali’s poems are charmed whispers that can console and devastate

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One Teacher’s Brilliant Strategy to Stop Future School Shootings—and It’s Not About Guns

Here's how one schoolteacher takes time each week to look out for the lonely.

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Veterans Combat Feelings of Isolation with Flag-Carrying Relay through Nine States

Every year, more than 250,000 Americans transition from active duty to civilian life. Sometimes, that comes with feelings of isolation and loneliness.

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Married But Lonely: What Causes the Feeling and What to Do, from Therapists

It’s easy to assume that being in a long-term relationship such as a marriage must automatically protect you from loneliness, but in reality, it’s very possible to be married but lonely.

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Stay-at-Home-Mom Depression Is Not Only Real, It’s Become a Crisis

We’ve finally started to talk about the mental health challenges that come along with raising children as a full-time job. But is it enough to help moms with the gargantuan challenges triggered by the pandemic?

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It’s Time to Rethink What Loneliness Is

Research suggests that chronic loneliness may be as damaging to health as smoking 15 cigarettes a day. But do we know what loneliness actually is?

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How to Manage Your Loneliness

You are far from alone in feeling alone. Here are some ideas to help.

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Find Your Heart in Loneliness

Teaching on the Tibetan yogi Milarepa, Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche describes the experience of desolateness. Like Milarepa when he meditated in his cave, when we are alone, we may begin a love affair with sadness.

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The Importance of Belonging

Columnist Amanda Enayati ponders the theme of seeking serenity, the quest for well-being, and life balance in stressful times.

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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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