WHO Declares Loneliness a Global Health Threat, Launches Commission for Action

The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared loneliness a global issue and they’ve initiated an international commission to address the issue worldwide. The WHO reportedly launched the Commission on Social Connection “to address loneliness as a pressing health threat, promote social connection as a priority and accelerate the scaling up of solutions in countries of … Read more

The US is facing a loneliness ‘epidemic’. Can art help reverse the trend? | Mental Health News

Early one morning in the spring of 1969, Jeremy Nobel went downstairs to the living room of his family home in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to get ready for school. There, he found his father sitting on the sofa, looking as white as a sheet and clearly in pain. He instructed Nobel, who was 15 years old … Read more