“Loneliness has followed me my whole life,” says Robert De Niro’s character, Travis Bickle, in Taxi Driver. “Everywhere. In bars, in cars, sidewalks, stores, everywhere. There’s no escape. I’m God’s ...

Even though I had friends, I was still lonely. My friends didn’t understand my reactions. There was a huge void inside me. These are some of the ways that people describe feeling alienated after ...

Research suggests loneliness and depression can reinforce each other, while social isolation has a more limited effect.

The Chicago-based creative explores loneliness, alienation and identity in his episodic feature that had its world premiere at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. By Georg Szalai Global ...

Modern fiction keeps returning to lonely characters because isolation now hides inside relationships, workplaces and digital connection, turning loneliness into one of literature’s sharpest ways of ...

Loneliness is defined as “a distressing feeling that accompanies the perception that one’s social needs are not being met by the quantity or especially the quality of one’s social relationships.” ...

Visit NAP.edu/10766 to get more information about this book, to buy it in print, or to download it as a free PDF. 4 The survey did not inquire about what kind of loneliness participants felt and ...

The loneliness epidemic isn’t slowing, in fact, the rates are alarmingly increasing, particularly in Black and LGBTQ+ folks. Tragically, the progress our country has made over the past several decades ...