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Loneliness

October 2024

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    Ask Annalisa Barbieri
    I’m 14 and stressed out with the pressure of school and friendships

    Being an adolescent is hard, and choosing the right path seems make or break. But you don’t have to be your best all the time – it’s in failure that we grow

September 2024

  • A person shaking a robot's hand

    Science Weekly
    Live episode: will AI make a good companion? – podcast

  • Maureen Nicol in 1960

    Brief letters
    National Housewives’ Register was a lifeline for women like me

  • V (formerly Eve Ensler)

    Rise against fascism
    The forces of loneliness can cause political instability. And threaten democracy

    V (formerly Eve Ensler)
  • Maureen Nicol, founder of the National Housewives Register (later renamed the National Womens Register), pictured in 1960 at the inception of the organisation

    Maureen Nicol obituary

August 2024

  • Mental health, thinking and doubt with a black woman on sofa for depression, lonely and anxiety.

    The demons of loneliness that young women face

  • Self-service checkout at a Tesco Express

    The Guardian view on connective labour: feelings are part of the job description

  • Female castaway emitting hearts from megaphone

    Politics is part of the problem – but it can also help pave a pathway out of loneliness and isolation

    Julianne Schultz
  • Illustration of a woman standing alone with her arms folded.

    Ask Annalisa Barbieri
    My friends never want to go out any more – and it’s making me feel lonely

  • No wonder young single women are lonelier than ever. Where is their community?

    Georgina Lawton

  • ‘It felt shameful’: the profound loneliness of modern motherhood

  • Can an AI friend make you less lonely?

July 2024

  • Ranjana Srivastava

    An elderly woman comes to hospital every second day. It breaks my heart to send her home

    Ranjana Srivastava
  • Jacqueline Crooks pictured among a collage showing children in a park, a library sign, Tower Bridge, a for rent sign, social housing blocks, and headlines about energy bills

    My home town: how London changed under Conservative rule

  • Mike Hohnen with his cat Bootsy and neighbour Enid Morrison in Rozelle in Sydney’s inner west

    ‘The cat has changed my life’: how Bootsy turned a street of strangers into a community

  • One of the 170 blocks that make up the Tokiwadaira housing estate near Tokyo.

    Life at the heart of Japan’s lonely deaths epidemic: ‘I would be lying if I said I wasn’t worried’

June 2024

  • Rear view of a woman looking out of the window at sunset.

    Loneliness can increase stroke risk by up to 56%, finds research

    People who feel chronically lonely over long period of time at higher risk, finds first study of its kind
  • Phil Daoust with his staffie cross Sienna.

    Fit for ever
    The loneliness trap: it is said to be as bad as smoking. So will it shorten my lifespan?

    Lonely people are more likely to get heart disease, strokes, anxiety, depression, dementia … Add it all up, and they’re 26% more likely to die early. How do you avoid joining the unhappy millions?
  • illustration of person at table with ghostly outlines of a person pouring a drink for another person and two outlined people sitting on a red couch

    Virtual living rooms, adult ‘after-school clubs’ and AI lovers: my search for a fix to modern loneliness

    I waded through the deluge of academic and Silicon Valley offerings for connection – here’s what was most appealing

May 2024

  • A glowing robot finger points to a key on a keyboard

    Could AI help cure ‘downward spiral’ of human loneliness?

    One computer scientist says we should embrace human-machine relationships, but other experts are more cautious
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