Is Loneliness Becoming an Epidemic?

Licensed Psychologist Dr. Jeannie Whitman spoke to Gary Rivers Tuesday morning on the growing belief that loneliness is becoming an epidemic.

According to a recent survey, Millennials are the loneliest generation in recent history.  Nearly one third of people between ages 22 and 37 said that they always or often feel lonely in a survey distributed by research company, YouGov.

Comparatively, 20 percent of gen X-ers and 15 percent of baby boomers said they feel similarly isolated. Even more depressingly, another 20 percent of millennials said they believe they have no friends – an unprecedented sense of loneliness.

Isolation is blamed, in part, for surging rates of deaths of despair in the US, including fatal drinking, drug overdoses and suicides.

Dr. Jeannie Whitman Licensed Psychologist
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