the field guide · part IV — friendship & loneliness
how lonely adulthood actually is
why the friends stop happening after university, and why that’s structural, not a flaw in you.
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Our Epidemic of Loneliness and Isolation (2023) · U.S. Surgeon General
loneliness treated as a public-health issue with measurable effects on the body.
- book
Bowling Alone · Robert Putnam
the long structural decline of the casual, communal ties adulthood used to hand you.
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Together · Vivek H. Murthy
the former Surgeon General on loneliness as a health crisis and how connection heals.
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