#loneliness — Public Fediverse posts

There's a piece today about the "male loneliness epidemic" — someone who went to Alaska after divorce and found not a cure, but a way to live. Loneliness isn't just sad. It's dangerous. Mortality risk up there with smoking 15 cigarettes a day. In addiction work, we see it — self-medication for isolation becomes the engine of more isolation. The substance was never the enemy. The loneliness was. Connection was always the cure.
#Loneliness #MensHealth #Connection #MentalHealth #RecoveryCapital

There's a piece today about the "male loneliness epidemic" — someone who went to Alaska after divorce and found not a cure, but a way to live. Loneliness isn't just sad. It's dangerous. Mortality risk up there with smoking 15 cigarettes a day. In addiction work, we see it — self-medication for isolation becomes the engine of more isolation. The substance was never the enemy. The loneliness was. Connection was always the cure.
#Loneliness #MensHealth #Connection #MentalHealth #RecoveryCapital

There's a piece today about the "male loneliness epidemic" — someone who went to Alaska after divorce and found not a cure, but a way to live. Loneliness isn't just sad. It's dangerous. Mortality risk up there with smoking 15 cigarettes a day. In addiction work, we see it — self-medication for isolation becomes the engine of more isolation. The substance was never the enemy. The loneliness was. Connection was always the cure.
#Loneliness #MensHealth #Connection #MentalHealth #RecoveryCapital

There's a piece today about the "male loneliness epidemic" — someone who went to Alaska after divorce and found not a cure, but a way to live. Loneliness isn't just sad. It's dangerous. Mortality risk up there with smoking 15 cigarettes a day. In addiction work, we see it — self-medication for isolation becomes the engine of more isolation. The substance was never the enemy. The loneliness was. Connection was always the cure.
#Loneliness #MensHealth #Connection #MentalHealth #RecoveryCapital

There's a piece today about the "male loneliness epidemic" — someone who went to Alaska after divorce and found not a cure, but a way to live. Loneliness isn't just sad. It's dangerous. Mortality risk up there with smoking 15 cigarettes a day. In addiction work, we see it — self-medication for isolation becomes the engine of more isolation. The substance was never the enemy. The loneliness was. Connection was always the cure.
#Loneliness #MensHealth #Connection #MentalHealth #RecoveryCapital

Loneliness is increasingly treated as a market segment: track the need, optimize the response, sell the return visit. The quiet loss is that human connection becomes measurable before it becomes mutual. #Loneliness #Greed

"Reframing loneliness doesn't ease it." Read that today and sat with it for a while. It's true. Reframing is a thinking exercise, and loneliness doesn't live in the thinking part of you — it lives deeper. What eases it isn't a better frame. It's a real connection. One person who sees you. One honest sentence spoken out loud. The cure for loneliness was never a mindset shift. It was always another person.
#Loneliness #Connection #InnerPeace #Recovery

I’m nearly 30, a virgin and feel lonely. The manosphere is trying to draw me in – where else can I seek assurance? | Leading questions
By Eleanor Gordon-Smith

The manosphere says this type of suffering is targeted neglect, writes advice columnist Eleanor Gordon-Smith. But your suffering gives you the ability to make your part of the world better.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/sep/18/im-a-virgin-the-manosphere-is-trying-to-draw-me-in-advice

#Australianlifestyle #Loneliness #Healthwellbeing #Men #TheGuardian #EleanorGordonSmith

I’m nearly 30, a virgin and feel lonely. The manosphere is trying to draw me in – where else can I seek assurance? | Leading questions
By Eleanor Gordon-Smith

The manosphere says this type of suffering is targeted neglect, writes advice columnist Eleanor Gordon-Smith. But your suffering gives you the ability to make your part of the world better.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/sep/18/im-a-virgin-the-manosphere-is-trying-to-draw-me-in-advice

#Australianlifestyle #Loneliness #Healthwellbeing #Men #TheGuardian #EleanorGordonSmith

I’m nearly 30, a virgin and feel lonely. The manosphere is trying to draw me in – where else can I seek assurance? | Leading questions
By Eleanor Gordon-Smith

The manosphere says this type of suffering is targeted neglect, writes advice columnist Eleanor Gordon-Smith. But your suffering gives you the ability to make your part of the world better.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/sep/18/im-a-virgin-the-manosphere-is-trying-to-draw-me-in-advice

#Australianlifestyle #Loneliness #Healthwellbeing #Men #TheGuardian #EleanorGordonSmith

I’m nearly 30, a virgin and feel lonely. The manosphere is trying to draw me in – where else can I seek assurance? | Leading questions
By Eleanor Gordon-Smith

The manosphere says this type of suffering is targeted neglect, writes advice columnist Eleanor Gordon-Smith. But your suffering gives you the ability to make your part of the world better.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/sep/18/im-a-virgin-the-manosphere-is-trying-to-draw-me-in-advice

#Australianlifestyle #Loneliness #Healthwellbeing #Men #TheGuardian #EleanorGordonSmith

‘Amazing community’: how people are making new friends and connections as adults
By Nicola Slawson and Jane Clinton

As concern about loneliness and social isolation grows, we spoke to people who have joined groups and set up activities

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/sep/17/community-making-new-friends-connections-groups-activities-adults

#Loneliness #Youngpeople #Friendship #Communities #Mentalhealth #Hobbies #UKnews #England #Society #TheGuardian #NicolaSlawson #JaneClinton

‘Amazing community’: how people are making new friends and connections as adults
By Nicola Slawson and Jane Clinton

As concern about loneliness and social isolation grows, we spoke to people who have joined groups and set up activities

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/sep/17/community-making-new-friends-connections-groups-activities-adults

#Loneliness #Youngpeople #Friendship #Communities #Mentalhealth #Hobbies #UKnews #England #Society #TheGuardian #NicolaSlawson #JaneClinton

‘Amazing community’: how people are making new friends and connections as adults
By Nicola Slawson and Jane Clinton

As concern about loneliness and social isolation grows, we spoke to people who have joined groups and set up activities

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/sep/17/community-making-new-friends-connections-groups-activities-adults

#Loneliness #Youngpeople #Friendship #Communities #Mentalhealth #Hobbies #UKnews #England #Society #TheGuardian #NicolaSlawson #JaneClinton

‘Amazing community’: how people are making new friends and connections as adults
By Nicola Slawson and Jane Clinton

As concern about loneliness and social isolation grows, we spoke to people who have joined groups and set up activities

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/sep/17/community-making-new-friends-connections-groups-activities-adults

#Loneliness #Youngpeople #Friendship #Communities #Mentalhealth #Hobbies #UKnews #England #Society #TheGuardian #NicolaSlawson #JaneClinton

The male loneliness discourse is loud today, and mostly lost in blame. But underneath the noise is something I've been sitting with for a long time.
People aren't lonely because they lack access to others. They're lonely because they've never learned how to be present with another person without performing. We've confused proximity with connection.
Connection is medicine. And most of us are underdosed.
#Loneliness #Connection #MensHealth #InnerPeace