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Heat Wave and Loneliness Lead to 739 Deaths
In July 1995 the city of Chicago experienced a heat wave that gripped the city for over a week. On July 13th, the heat peaked at 106 degrees. During the ...
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Isolation can Kill, Says British Study
After studying more than 6500 people, researchers at University College London determined that “loneliness hurts, but social isolation can kill ...
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Expert Says Online Communication Has Replaced Conversations
Sherry Turkle, a professor at M.I.T. and author of Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other, has spent years studying ...
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Former Movie Star Lay Dead for Almost a Year
Yvette Vickers, a former [model] and B-movie star, best known for her role in Attack of the 50-Foot Woman, would have been 83 in August 2011, but nobody ...
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Expert Claims Loneliness Seeps into Our Whole Body
John Cacioppo, the director of the Center for Cognitive and Social Neuroscience at the University of Chicago, is the world's leading expert on loneliness. ...
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An Elderly Woman Reaches Out to Homesick College Students
Daniel Meyer tells the story of an elderly woman who heard a sermon in which she felt God encouraging her to look for ways in which she could use her ...
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Psychiatrist Identifies the "Gauntlet of Silence" Among Men
In his book Invisible Men, Dr. Michael E. Addis tells the story about meeting a middle-aged man named Patrick. Although by all accounts Patrick was an ...
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The Epidemic of Loneliness at Christmas Time
A British medical doctor named Ishani Kar-Purkayastha shared a story about his interaction with Doris, an 82-year-old hospital patient. Two days before ...
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David Brooks on Our Need for Relationships
[The 19th century English poet] Samuel Taylor Coleridge described how his own [son], then three-years-old, awoke in the night and called to his mother. ...
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The Positive or Negative Influence of Friendships and Small Groups
An article from Wired Magazine explored why AA has been able to help millions of people recover from an alcohol addiction. The article begins by stating, ...
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