I spent a Saturday recently all by myself. I went to a farmers’ market alone, sat in a coffee shop alone, cooked dinner alone, and watched a movie alone. When a friend asked how my weekend was, I said ...

As Valentine’s Day approaches, people tend to think about romance and who they are with if anyone. “I’m alone, but I’m not lonely,” master criminal Neil McCauley, played by Robert De Niro, says in the ...

Experts say long-term loneliness doesn’t always show on the surface—but it often shapes subtle personality patterns that ...

Is this person feeling lonely? Or happy to be alone? Source: Sindre Fs/Pexels Being lonely is a feeling. It’s about feeling disconnected from others, not having the kind of social contact and ...

Psychologists who study women's identity at midlife have found that women who built their lives around expectation often ...

It’s no secret that our generation is experiencing record rates of depression and isolation. Among workers aged 18-22, over 73 percent report feeling alone sometimes or always. Loneliness is a silent ...

Over the past few years, experts have been sounding the alarm over how much time Americans spend alone. These trends coincided with the surgeon general's 2023 declaration of a loneliness epidemic, ...

James Baldwin has a quote about the greatness of art that describes the experience of feeling alone in your depression and then realizing — through reading — that Dostoevsky felt that same depression.