U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy used to talk about loneliness as a public health crisis. Now he says it’s an epidemic that urgently needs our attention. The World Health Organization agrees with him. Now as co-chair of its newly appointed Commission on Social Connections, Dr. Murthy has an even bigger platform from which to advocate for change, encouraging us to reach out and ask for help while also offering it to others who may need it. He joins The Excerpt to talk about why this problem is so persistent and what we can do to fix it.
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I try to make friends but no one reciprocates. I try to date but the men are self centered and they have such entitlement issues they stop contacting me after two or three dates. People are selfish and hard to trust
As a ♋️, I'm great either way🫡
Generation Cray Z
= The solution for lonely people. They are beyond themselves. When they have been subjected to perverse obstacles in their life and career, do not wait for them, the lonely ones, to emerge socially suitable.
= La solución para las personas solitarias. Se encuentran más allá de ellas mismas. Cuando han sido sometidas a perversos obstáculos en su vida y carrera, no esperen a que ellos, los solitarios, salgan socialmente idóneos.
I chose to isolate myself after being stalked online by a third party turned present gf of my ex fiancee. I got depressed for awhile and got rid all people who became flying monkeys. I just live life on a day by day basis. I need to keep going because I still have dreams, i have goals… I'm just waiting… sometimes feeling impatient but I understand that it will come in perfect time.
You cant help others who are not willing to help themselves.
So yeah, maybe Im selfish for focusing on myself but I am also dragging myself to keep moving. If i will allow myself to stay in bed and loneliness take over, i can feel that in my body… like slowly deteriorate.
So fight for your right to live each day. You will be proud of yourself someday for not giving up.
See you on 2024, it will be a great ride once again❤ 🌎 😊🎉
I can't have a life as my father filed down my teeth, they say i'm a bad person and tell me to solve it on my own, I sit in a room suffering all day wishing someone would help, but no one wants to
as someone who has lived almost his entire life in loneliness… the surgeon general offers some good ideas that could slightly improve feelings of loneliness, but I don't think doing a little meditation in the morning or making a quick phone call to a friend is going to help someone overcome deep-seated and chronic loneliness. for that fundamental changes in your weekly or even daily schedule are necessary, perhaps a job change, starting a family, or joining a close-knit group or club. there is no mention of community in his responses. having a couple friends that you can turn to for advice is good, but feeling like you are part of a group or tribe is extremely important as well. I think the steeper drop has been in that kind of connections, rather than individual friendships. ultimately, solving loneliness is going to require a completely different approach for everyone and these quick-fix ideas are not sufficient. for example, he mentions not using the phone at the dinner table with his wife and kids, but he never mentions the importance of having a wife or kids to begin with.
I saw a woman on a public bus just scrolling her smartphone and making likes or dislikes. I thought that that is not correct connecting.
Whatever you do keep the federal gov dar far away from any health issue.
Gratitude is like prayer. It is so affirming. Pick up your phone. Don't text or email pick up your phone like in the other days!!
Lonliness can also be in relationships. I see many couples who are so lonely with each other.
Thank You.
It’s gotten much worse since the lockdown. More damage than most people know.
We need the teletransporter. Scottie beam us up!! If only we can be physically in each others physical spaces.Covid damaged so many of us. But also social media. Lonliness is a very painful reality. Just sit in a restauraunt. Every one is on their cell phone. Lonliness shows how we must be connected to each other. We are social creatures.
Shut up Ian!!!!!!
Well all you lonely people out there go do something with people. As for me I like being alone. No drama.
Dana Taylor, the level of professionalism that your deliberate speech and diction teaches makes whatever you say almost secondary. I only hope you are enjoying the subject matter, which is the ultimate factor in any successful communication.
Bravo
What a nice man the surgeon general is.
When did anyone start caring about anyone ? Before or after Jesus was imprisoned and murdered ? You're foolish to think he's coming back to save anyone… Now get on with global Thermo nuclear War … HAKUNA MATATA 👽😇🙂🙃😘
Globalist entities and government agencies knew the C19 lockdowns would have devastating effects on society. The isolation forced on us of course caused increased loneliness, increased drug use and suicides. Diminished interpersonal skills. Many couldn't attend church for over a year and lost their faith. Many small brick and mortar small businesses went under, proprietor and employees left emotionally adrift. Masks, social distancing and plastic barriers quickly destroyed traditional means of communicating in person.
Those who imposed the lockdowns knew it would destroy traditional culture, customs, ideas and values.
The AI person doing the interview is not believable. Time to hire real people.
Easier and more convenient communications technology gets, the less we want to speak to each other
Looks a like AI if not still brainwashed robots speaking
This is a wonderful interview.
So needed.
Thank you!
Merry Christmas
If you are lonely, when you are alone, … you are in bad company.
I don’t know about the rest of the world, but I can tell you about how loneliness became a thing in the United States. Bad economic and trade policies forced millions of Americans over the decades to have to leave the towns and states where they have family in order to make a decent living because the jobs in their home towns and states dried up due to bad trade and economic policies. Also, decades of neglect to our infrastructure because rich people don’t want to pay taxes has made traveling by automobile an extremely dangerous and stressful experience to the point where people limit traveling to where their families live during the holidays. We have no high speed rail to make the journey less stressful and much less dangerous. Why? Rich people don’t want to pay taxes. They can afford to charter private jets. All this chit started with Reagan and continues to this day.
“There’s a rugged individualism for the poor and Socialism for the rich” mlk
Yea,cause im by my self all the time😮
Embrace aloneness !! depression is to live among people lol
How can I help the lonely?
People are snakes, and everyone is aware of it, therefore staying alone is their best bet period. corrupt from top to bottom and they are awake to what's what. It's what happens when the curtain falls and everyone can see each other for what they truly are.
I’m highly educated, have a solid, long-term career, a house, insurance, a fat retirement savings, etc., yet I can’t find a good woman to share it with. I have many faults, but overall I’m a good guy with a lot to offer. Despite what the good doctor said, I believe there truly is something wrong with me.
…gee I wonder if telling people they'd die if they're near each other for about 3 years had anything to do with it…
CORRECTION.LONLINESS IS NOT A GLOBAL EPIDEMIC…BUT WOKE PROGRESSIVE POLICIES ARE BRUH..🤔🤔🤔
That's because democrats have encouraged everyone everywhere, of all sexualities, political parties, all colors, races, beliefs, ages… You've split us all up, pitted us against each other to the point of murder. All to purchase power by splitting everyone apart. Democrats claim to do this and that, but it's all bullshit. They simply WOULD NOT EXIST if they didn't separate us all. Wake up!
are these the same jacka$$es that say gun deaths are a health emergency
Have you guys heard of going to churches? Might wanna try it out sometimes.
The only thing worse than BEING alone is WISHING you were. I am 63 and i enjoy being by myself and having my privacy. Ive paid my dues taking care of others. Im focusing on myself now. I answer to noone except the good Lord.
Being alive is apparently the most unhealthy thing possible according to MSM
consider how women make up only 10% of the prison population but kill 100% of the unborn and are allowed by the same biased courts that also give them full custody ………. no man in his right mind would want to touch anything that toxic to his future unless it was a one night stand.
If you don’t wanna be lonely – you won’t be lonely. Loneliness to 70-80% is a choice
World wide web isn't so world wide …….. people cannot connect because they don't want people to connect. Facebook, twitter, etc ………… give me a break.
Thanks to all you demons who brought us the plandemic. Hell awaits…
She must’ve been in a coma between 2019 and 2021 to call it a global epidemic.
Well how typical, the left creates the problem by isolating people with a pandemic and now lo and behold they come up with a solution.