Tag: Mental Health
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Why We Will Always Feel Lonely
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I’m already lonely, and I’ll always be lonely. The day will never arrive when I’ll stop feeling lonely for good; I’ll never find a person who truly gets me; I’ll…
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The Songs That Soothed My Loneliness
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in LonelinessDuring my lowest period in New York, almost the only thing I found consoling was watching music videos on YouTube, curled on the sofa with my headphones on, listening again…
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The Subtle Emotional Sorcery of ‘Aftersun’
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in PhilosophyWhen my local cinema rescreened Aftersun this week, I experienced things I’ve never seen a movie do. After the final scene, the entire theater remained silent. Nobody moved. Slowly, you…
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The Myth of the Loneliness Epidemic
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in LonelinessOn May 1, 2023, I woke up to a news headline I’d been yearning to see for years: We Have Become a Lonely Nation. It’s Time to Fix That. It was a guest article by…
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Loneliness Isn’t Your Fault: How Genes and Modernity Make Us Lonely
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in LonelinessI’m so stupid. It’s all my fault. How could I let this happen to me? My thoughts spun like a carousel as I walked along an empty beach, somewhere in the…
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Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport: 5 Lessons to Tame Technology
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“I finally finished it!” my brother told me on a train headed to the north of Germany. By “it,” I could tell, he meant Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport. Not…