The male loneliness discourse is loud this week, and most of the jokes have something tender underneath: plenty of men have all the company in the world and almost no connection.
Company isn't connection. One honest conversation beats a hundred hangouts.
This week: ask one man in your life a second question. Then a third.
#Loneliness #MensHealth #Connection #MentalHealth
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Being alone and being lonely are different things, and most of us were never taught the difference. One is an empty room; the other is an empty feeling in a crowded one. If the quiet makes you restless, that's information, not a flaw. Before you reach for something — or someone — to make it stop: Pause. Acknowledge. Understand. Settle. Engage. That small practice is where both solitude and connection begin. #Loneliness #InnerPeace #MentalHealth #Mindfulness #AddictionRecovery
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Social physiology: the hidden health cost of eating alone, according to science
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If one is afraid of intimacy yet afraid of being alone, even a stand-alone (not networked) computer offers an apparent solution. Interactive and reactive, the computer offers the illusion of companionship without the demands of friendship. One can be a loner yet never be alone.
-- Sherry Turkle (Life on the Screen)⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #SherryTurkle #Companionship #Computers #Loneliness
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"Male loneliness epidemic" is everywhere this morning, and underneath the jokes I hear something familiar.
In thirty years of counseling, I've watched men get praised for self-sufficiency right up until the silence becomes too heavy — and too many reach for something to numb it rather than someone to talk to.
Connection is medicine. Check on the quiet man in your life today.
#Loneliness #MensHealth #Connection #MentalHealth