#loneliness — Public Fediverse posts

The self-care industry is worth $2 trillion. People are lonelier than ever. We took a structural problem—the erosion of community—and reframed it as a personal failing. "You're not doing enough self-care." I've learned: self-care is a starting line, not a finish line. What sustains people is community. Resilience scales through community. New post: https://dub.sh/QlAIoVG
#SelfCare #Community #Connection #Loneliness #MentalHealth

I am feeling lonely and I need companionship. Is anyone interested in talking to me and hanging out with me?

#loneliness #companionship #reallife #lookingforconnection #sharedspaces #quietmoments #honestreflections #livedexperience #authenticity #solitude #humanconnection

I am feeling lonely and I need companionship. Is anyone interested in talking to me and hanging out with me?

#loneliness #companionship #reallife #lookingforconnection #sharedspaces #quietmoments #honestreflections #livedexperience #authenticity #solitude #humanconnection

I am feeling lonely and I need companionship. Is anyone interested in talking to me and hanging out with me?

#loneliness #companionship #reallife #lookingforconnection #sharedspaces #quietmoments #honestreflections #livedexperience #authenticity #solitude #humanconnection

One year after a bipolar episode, Bonobos cofounder sold his company to Walmart for $310 million

Over the course of his two-decade car…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Mentalhealth #andWellness #Business #Careers #CEOWellness #Entrepreneurs #Entrepreneurship #family #Fitness #Founders #Health #Lifestyle #loneliness #Marriage #MentalHealth #Millionaires #PersonalHealth #sales #SocialMedia #start-ups #VCfunding #Walmart #wellbeing
https://www.newsbeep.com/us/846583/

One year after a bipolar episode, Bonobos cofounder sold his company to Walmart for $310 million

Over the course of his two-decade car…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Mentalhealth #andWellness #Business #Careers #CEOWellness #Entrepreneurs #Entrepreneurship #family #Fitness #Founders #Health #Lifestyle #loneliness #Marriage #MentalHealth #Millionaires #PersonalHealth #sales #SocialMedia #start-ups #VCfunding #Walmart #wellbeing
https://www.newsbeep.com/us/846583/

One year after a bipolar episode, Bonobos cofounder sold his company to Walmart for $310 million

Over the course of his two-decade career, entrepreneur Andy Dunn…
#NewsBeep #News #Mentalhealth #andWellness #Business #Careers #CEOWellness #Entrepreneurs #Entrepreneurship #Family #Fitness #Founders #Health #Lifestyle #Loneliness #Marriage #MentalHealth #Millionaires #PersonalHealth #Sales #SocialMedia #Start-Ups #UK #UnitedKingdom #VCfunding #Walmart #wellbeing
https://www.newsbeep.com/uk/769439/

https://www.europesays.com/ie/686735/ One year after a bipolar episode, Bonobos cofounder sold his company to Walmart for $310 million #AndWellness #Business #Careers #CEOWellness #Éire #Entrepreneurs #Entrepreneurship #family #Fitness #Founders #Health #IE #Ireland #lifestyle #Loneliness #Marriage #MentalHealth #MentalHealth #Millionaires #PersonalHealth #Sales #SocialMedia #StartUps #VCFunding #Walmart #WellBeing

https://www.europesays.com/uk/1202036/ One year after a bipolar episode, Bonobos cofounder sold his company to Walmart for $310 million #AndWellness #Business #Careers #CEOWellness #Entrepreneurs #Entrepreneurship #Family #Fitness #Founders #Health #Lifestyle #loneliness #Marriage #MentalHealth #Millionaires #PersonalHealth #Sales #SocialMedia #StartUps #UK #UnitedKingdom #VCFunding #Walmart #WellBeing

Thinktank reports epidemic of loneliness among England’s ‘disconnected’ young https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/sep/01/thinktank-reports-epidemic-of-loneliness-among-englands-disconnected-young #YoungPeople #MentalHealth #Loneliness #UkNews #England #SocialMedia #Unemployment #UkCostOfLivingCrisis #HousePrices #RentingProperty #Society #Thinktanks #Tiktok #Friendship #Health

Thinktank reports epidemic of loneliness among England’s ‘disconnected’ young
By Denis Campbell Health policy editor

Youth club closures, unaffordable housing and social media cited as factors contributing to a sharp decline in wellbeing

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/sep/01/thinktank-reports-epidemic-of-loneliness-among-englands-disconnected-young

#Youngpeople #Mentalhealth #Loneliness #UKnews #England #Socialmedia #Unemployment #UKcostoflivingcrisis #Houseprices #Rentingproperty #Society #Thinktanks #TikTok #Friendship #Health #TheGuardian #DenisCampbellHealthpolicyeditor

‘I’m giving people a happy space’: the man clearing gardens for free – and letting light into strangers’ lives
By Emily Retter

When he saw a messy yard being criticised on social media, Stephen Jalland grabbed his trimmer and decided to help. An overgrown garden, he discovered, often hides an overwhelmed owner

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/aug/11/clearing-gardens-for-free-stephen-jalland

#Volunteering #Socialcare #Society #Gardens #Cambridgeshire #Lifeandstyle #Socialmedia #Mentalhealth #Loneliness #Health #Digitalmedia #UKnews #TheGuardian #EmilyRetter

“Wall Street sells stocks and bonds, but what it really peddles is hope”*…

Over the last several decades retail investors had been eclipsed in the stock market by institutions (e.g., pension funds). But COVID and the economic environment that surrounded started a trend that is reversing that polarity. Retail investors now account for roughly 30% of daily US equity volume, according to Goldman Sachs. Their stock trading in May of this year ran 10% above the previous record, set during the January 2021 meme-stock frenzy, and June set another all time high.

Much of that growth has come from the individuals known as day traders.” And while for the last 18 months or so, institutional investors have been cautious, often underweight, under-levered and short of conviction, these active amateurs in the retail crowd did the opposite, buying the dips, riding momentum strategies, and adding leverage. Retail investors tend to follow the herd, as can be seen in the surge in popularity – and valuations – of meme stocks and artificial intelligence stocks in recent years.

While historical performance is no guarantee of future results, history is not encouraging. The most “generous” reputable study your correspondent could find suggested that roughly 20% of day traders were at least marginally profitable; the balance lost money. Other studies suggest that 95-97% of all day traders lose money.

But as Simone Foxman reports, money is not all that they lose…

Surging retail trading isn’t just transforming markets; it’s also highly correlated with demoralization in young men, according to a new study.

One-quarter of men aged 18-29 said they trade stocks daily, and almost two-thirds of them (64%) report feeling like failures, according to a study of 2,000 men published Wednesday by the Institute for Family Studies, a pro-marriage think tank. The findings were strikingly similar to outcomes among men who gamble: Of the 23% of young men who said they gambled daily, including on sports and events, 66% reported similar angst, according to survey, which asked the young men a variety of questions about their personal behaviors and outlooks. Daily fantasy sports and pornography use were similarly correlated to feelings of failure, the survey found.

The struggles of young men are generating growing alarm among academics, pundits and billionaires. They warn that men are lagging in education and employment, gambling with their financial health on sports or event betting platforms and facing mental health crises.

At the same time, the line between gambling and investing has been blurred. Stock volumes from retail investors have doubled over the past 15 years, and day traders have driven record options volume. Now platforms like Robinhood Markets Inc. and Interactive Brokers Group are trying to capitalize on interest from Gen Z by also offering event-betting alongside stock-trading.

Some research suggests young people have embraced risky financial behaviors to try to generate returns in a world where homeownership and other markers of financial success are out of reach. Eighty percent of Gen Z investors said they’d invested or considered investing in stocks, options, crypto or prediction markets because they feel financially behind and see these investments as better tools to meet their financial goals, according to a Northwestern Mutual study.

The IFS researchers hypothesized that day trading, gambling, playing fantasy sports and porn use — among other activities — may be both coping mechanisms for dejection, stress and loneliness and also exacerbate them. Young men who engaged in these activities less than daily were about half as likely to report feelings of demoralization.

Overall, 42% of survey respondents said the statement “all in all, I am inclined to think that I am a failure,” described them very or somewhat well. This feeling was particularly strong among men without college degrees and those who were neither employed nor in school.

A quarter of participants said they felt lonely all of the time, while 30% expressed feeling that way some of the time.

The study also found disillusionment with the American dream, even as young men fostered high hopes for the future. Seven in ten respondents said that success is more a matter of who you know than ability or hard work, but 84% still said they had ambitious plans for their futures.

Further to the passing reference to “event-betting” above, we should note that prediction markets, while smaller than retail investing (at least for now), are growing explosively. Like day-trading, prediction markets are pitched in the language of empowerment and democratization. The former involves stocks and bonds, while the latter sells “event contracts“; but they share the same user base, the same psychological architecture, and the same uncomfortable gap between how they are marketed and what they actually deliver… so seem likely to contribute to the issues unpacked above.

Risky business: “Some 64% of Young Men Day Trading Stocks Feel Like Failures” (or here) from @simonefoxman.bsky.social in @bloomberg.com.

* Jason Zweig

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As we parse symptoms and diseases, we might recall that it was on this date in 1966 that the U.S. Treasury Department, citing a lack of demand, ceased production of the $2 bill, which had been around in various forms since 1862. The (redesigned) denomination, featuring a portrait of Thomas Jefferson, was reintroduced in 1976… though readers will be forgiven if they mistakenly thought that “the deuce” was still retired: so few are in circulation that they are rarely encountered.

The Accidental Phone Call

She misdialed a number, she said,
but not really.

So we reminisced about old times,
the good work we did together,
where our coworkers are,
what our children are doing.

Organizations end,
but relationships don’t have to.
I can do better at staying connected.

I can be more intentional,
while at the same time
knowing that
on this journey
there are no
accidental phone calls.

August 10, 2015

A quotation from Edward R. Murrow

The politician in my country seeks votes, affection and respect, in that order. This is not unique or surprising. […] The politician of necessity leads an isolated life, so far as his colleagues are concerned, because most of them are his rivals. Many of them are men of undoubted charm, ability and incredible energy, and yet too often they lack purpose or appetite for anything beyond their own careers. With few notable exceptions, they are simply men who want to be loved.

Edward R. Murrow (1908-1965) American journalist
Speech (1959-10-19), “Television and Politics,” British Association Granada Lectures, London Guildhall

More about this quote: wist.info/murrow-edward-r/5470…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #edwardrmurrow #ego #insecurity #isolation #loneliness #love #neediness #neediness #politician

A quotation from Edward R. Murrow

The politician in my country seeks votes, affection and respect, in that order. This is not unique or surprising. […] The politician of necessity leads an isolated life, so far as his colleagues are concerned, because most of them are his rivals. Many of them are men of undoubted charm, ability and incredible energy, and yet too often they lack purpose or appetite for anything beyond their own careers. With few notable exceptions, they are simply men who want to be loved.

Edward R. Murrow (1908-1965) American journalist
Speech (1959-10-19), “Television and Politics,” British Association Granada Lectures, London Guildhall

More about this quote: wist.info/murrow-edward-r/5470…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #edwardrmurrow #ego #insecurity #isolation #loneliness #love #neediness #neediness #politician

A quotation from Edward R. Murrow

The politician in my country seeks votes, affection and respect, in that order. This is not unique or surprising. […] The politician of necessity leads an isolated life, so far as his colleagues are concerned, because most of them are his rivals. Many of them are men of undoubted charm, ability and incredible energy, and yet too often they lack purpose or appetite for anything beyond their own careers. With few notable exceptions, they are simply men who want to be loved.

Edward R. Murrow (1908-1965) American journalist
Speech (1959-10-19), “Television and Politics,” British Association Granada Lectures, London Guildhall

More about this quote: wist.info/murrow-edward-r/5470…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #edwardrmurrow #ego #insecurity #isolation #loneliness #love #neediness #neediness #politician

A quotation from Edward R. Murrow

The politician in my country seeks votes, affection and respect, in that order. This is not unique or surprising. […] The politician of necessity leads an isolated life, so far as his colleagues are concerned, because most of them are his rivals. Many of them are men of undoubted charm, ability and incredible energy, and yet too often they lack purpose or appetite for anything beyond their own careers. With few notable exceptions, they are simply men who want to be loved.

Edward R. Murrow (1908-1965) American journalist
Speech (1959-10-19), “Television and Politics,” British Association Granada Lectures, London Guildhall

More about this quote: wist.info/murrow-edward-r/5470…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #edwardrmurrow #ego #insecurity #isolation #loneliness #love #neediness #neediness #politician

Haven’t We Always Been Friends?

https://bolesblogs.com/2026/07/20/havent-we-always-been-friends/

Broken Chair

I rescued the chair from outside someone’s apartment with the hope of fixing it and having it become a welcome member of our family.

But, as often happens, it sat around in various places waiting for me to find the time to repair it.

Finally, I decided it was one more project I did not have time for, and so yesterday I put it out on the sidewalk in the hopes that someone would take it home.

It sat out there all through yesterday in the rain and the sun, lonely, awaiting a new friend. A few people paused to look but then drove away. Periodically I would look out my window to see it still sitting forlornly there.

Then this morning I noticed an older gentleman walking past who began to inspect the chair. He picked it up, put it on his back and walked away.

It is a beautiful chair. It just needs to be repaired, and I am sure its new owner will do just that.

I don’t know about you, but I feel a lot like that broken chair, waiting for the gentle hands of someone to put me back together again.

I wait, broken, with the hope that those hands will touch me, I will be healed, and I can have a purpose again.

July 10, 2015

Culdesac

down here on the path 
beside the railroad tracks 
with the freight train 
slowly going by 
the urge to hop on one 
of the gravel laden cars 
and let it take me 
far away from here 
is almost overpowering

as usual i do not 
make the leap and 
later i find myself 
walking past the old man 
with a broom sweeping 
the street to where the path 
turns back upon itself 
out past the little girl 
on her mama's back 
who says hi 

i try to smile in return 
but all i can think about 
is how did i ever get so lost

July 9, 2015

Worn Memory

#fisherboat #boat #harbor #decayed #blackandwhite #monochrome #worn #dark #loneliness #solitude #melnacholy #damaged
#photography #bnwphotography #blackandwhitephotography #boatphotography #monochromephotography #photomanipulation #photomanipulated
#jlbouzou

#Fotovorschlag - Thema "Einsamkeit"

DE
#Einsamkeit oder #Zweisamkeit? Das Motiv lässt viele Interpretationen zu - sogar auch "gemeinsam einsam" ... was meint Ihr?

EN
#Loneliness or #togetherness? The image is open to many interpretations – even ‘lonely together’… what do you think?

#photosuggestion
#Monochrome
#blackwhite
#OwnWork
#Herz
#Heart
#Zaun
#SilentSunday
#Fence
#Photography
#Fotografie
#notAIgenerated
#Pentax
#pentaxk3mkiiimono
#pentax_da2040

Study finds loneliness is linked to poorer memory in older adults, but not faster decline

📰 Original title: Lonely people have worse memory but don’t decline faster, study finds

🤖 IA: It's not clickbait ✅
👥 Usuarios: It's not clickbait ✅

View full AI summary: https://killbait.com/en/study-finds-loneliness-is-linked-to-poorer-memory-in-older-adults-but-not-faster-decline/?redirpost=3b55b3ca-307a-4379-b870-648729255b53

#health #loneliness #memory #olderadults

my #energy is very low to cope with everyday life.
never be #ashamed of your #condition.
you don't have to be "more", you are enough by the fact that you live.
it's hard, it's not fair, but in life itself there is #hope.
sometimes hope is silent, sometimes it's so silent that you don't even recognize it.
but hope will always be there, just like you.
and that's enough.
you are #enough

#depression #depressionen #stuck #depressed #depressive #DepressionAwareness #depressing
#lonely #loneliness

Out from the darkness…

…the dark monster tries to get into action…

…after lurking for a while…

The dark monster is always out there. Lurking, keeping an eye out, and when my resistance is low, when the spoons have been spent, when I am all out of energy… It jumps out and tried to pound on me. Pin me down and feed me with all the darkest thoughts, so that I will stay defenseless and down. And, I feared that this would happen… I knew that my spoons would be low, my energy would be bad, I would be tired a lot and not get the best sleep. So now, I am struggling with feeling lonely and I feel like I am a nuisance that people want to stay far away from… They will be polite, but just because they are hoping that it will keep me at bay… Or well, that’s what my brain is trying to convince me of…

[…]

https://cynnisblog.wordpress.com/2025/07/11/out-from-the-darkness/

The loneliness of the holiday season is starting to set in here. I'll probably be eating vegan Chinese food in solitude. At least I'll have a real dining table this year.

#Hanukkah #Christmas #loneliness #family #dating #gaydating #lgbtq #disabled #actuallyautistic #gay #vegan

fallow days take root
mounting to crushing summed weight
of emptiness borne

#MastoPrompt: #nourish #NegativeSpace
#haiku #senryu #poem #ShortPoem #SmallPoem #loneliness #starvation #drought #dysfunction

This is not satire as far as I can tell. I’m sure it will flop (though it’s only $99 which will help) but it’s part of a broader trend towards technosolutions for contemporary anomie. This is the feature of the GenAI landscape which I think critics are massively underestimating. I’m convinced the technology will facilitate a mass market product in this space beyond Replika’s current 25 million users.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_Q1hoEhfk4

https://markcarrigan.net/2024/08/07/technosolutionism-meets-anomie/

#anomie #Friendship #generativeAI #loneliness

Endurance of Time a Portrayal of an Elderly in the Industrious World

In the midst of a bustling industrial factory, an elderly worker sits alone on a bench,evoking solitude amidst perpetual chaos A reminder of time's unstoppable passage

See More Seeds: https://aidyslexic.raupulus.dev/collections/show/1315

#StableDiffusion #ai #ArtificialIntelligence #Joel-Sternfeld #elderly #industrial-scene #evocative #time #loneliness #perseverance