Saying they do not want to bother anyone is a deeply lonely person’s way of not actually having to admit how lonely they ...

Sara Moniuszko is a health and lifestyle reporter at CBSNews.com. Previously, she wrote for USA Today, where she was selected to help launch the newspaper's wellness vertical. She now covers breaking ...

Living on my own for the first time felt like a rite of passage, a symbol of adulthood and success. The moment I got my first full-time job, I knew I wanted my own apartment. In 2024, I went from ...

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We are, according to Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, experiencing an "epidemic" of loneliness. Chronic loneliness is associated with earlier death, more illness and slower recovery, depression, ...

Existential loneliness isn't about being alone. It's a much deeper form of loneliness that is about how we're experiencing ...

A fascinating new study shows how music affects our imagination — and how it just might help you feel less lonely, too. “Music seemed to be the only thing that provided comfort and relief” during this ...

The number of Americans feeling lonely at work is on the rise, according to a new study from Bingo Card Creator. In the survey of 2,000 people collected in June, nearly two in three American and ...

Dear Annie: My mother died when I was 5, and I grew up in a very abusive childhood—abuse in every sense of the word. I’m still traumatized over my childhood, and I am now 65. I ended up in what I ...