Key points

The impact of loneliness affects our mental and physical health and increases mortality risk.

Social functioning could degrade as we depend more on technology for our emotional needs.

Excessive screen time for adolescents precipitates a disturbing lack of socialization.

Practice news hygiene. It's good to stay up to date, but don't saturate.

Long before the pandemic of 2020 began, the former Surgeon General Vivek Murthy had already declared an epidemic of loneliness in our nation. The impact of loneliness affects our mental and physical health and increases our mortality risk. So this is not anything new. We saw the signs, but we as a society have failed to do anything about it. Perhaps it's an impossible task to put toothpaste back in the tube.

There are many reasons fo

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