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The Loneliness Epidemic - Overview
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Making a Difference looks at the impact of loneliness in the region
Making a Difference: The Loneliness Epidemic explores the difference between being alone and feeling lonely. One in three adults over 60 live by themselves, but loneliness is the deeper experience of craving connection. An overview of its hidden impacts on health and well-being.
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The Loneliness Epidemic - Overview
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Making a Difference: The Loneliness Epidemic explores the difference between being alone and feeling lonely. One in three adults over 60 live by themselves, but loneliness is the deeper experience of craving connection. An overview of its hidden impacts on health and well-being.
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[piano music] CECILY CORNELIUS WHITE: Loneliness can be one of those things that sneaks up on people.
Oftentimes, we think about loneliness as the state of being alone, but it's not necessarily.
You can be lonely and be in a crowd of people.
So it's not just alienation from others; it's often self-alienation.
It's the experience of being lonely or being alone but also craving connection, but not being able to manifest that.
JEANNE COBURN: One in three adults over 60 are living by themselves in what I see as being a therapist.
I meet with people often who don't have social connections, don't have connections with others, and really are struggling emotionally.
So, yeah, I do think it is an epidemic.
I think we're seeing a spike in loneliness, both loneliness and isolation.
It's also interesting that the loneliest generation is actually Gen Z. It's young kids because of social media, for the most part, but we're seeing a lot of older adults experiencing loneliness.
JEANNE COBURN: It takes a lot of courage and self-esteem to build new relationships with people if you don't have those relationships already established.
Reaching out into an uncomfortable situation and introducing yourself or putting yourself into an uncomfortable situation and making yourself vulnerable, that's very hard for a lot of people.
So already having a sense of depression or anxiety can just make that even harder to step into a place of connection with other people.
Loneliness is something that needs to be listened to.
It's a warning sign, essentially.
And so if you don't listen to the warning sign, then, yes, I think it could have significant negative health impacts.
JEANNE COBURN: An increased level of stress, which occurs because of loneliness, can have an effect on your body, on your body systems.
So your physical health can be compromised when you're isolated and lonely as well.
CECILY CORNELIUS WHITE: Expectation shapes experience.
So how you expect the world to be really does color how you engage with it.
And that changes the world that is open to you.
So if you believe that you can be successful, that you can find connection with people who are similar-minded, and people who will care about you, and who you can care about, if you believe that, they're there.
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Making a Difference: The Loneliness Epidemic
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