In early May 2023, U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy published an advisory1 on the growing epidemic of loneliness and social isolation. According to White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, the advisory is “part of the Biden administration’s broader efforts to address mental health”2 by raising awareness. No federal funding has been allocated to address it,… Read More »
The video above features a compilation of some of the most absurd COVID narratives we were indoctrinated with over the past three years. For example, “No one is safe until everyone is safe” was one of several lies we heard repeated across media platforms. First of all, there were and are vast differences in risk… Read More »
This article was originally published here. One of my colleagues has advanced a compelling theory to explain why a palpable madness seems to be gripping our society and more and more people seem to be going off the rails. “So much information is available now we are constantly bombarded with, that it has exceeded the… Read More »
Solitude — the state of being alone — is often described as a bad thing. But that’s because it’s often discussed in the context of other psychological experiences like isolation, social rejection or loneliness.1 Solitude is different from loneliness, however. When researchers sought to understand solitude as a “psychological experience of being alone, without communications,… Read More »