U.S. Surgeon GeneralVivek Murthyhas been sounding the alarm on the loneliness epidemic for more than a year. In his 2023 report"Our Epidemic of Loneliness and Isolation," Murthy wrote that loneliness is associated with a greater risk of cardiovascular disease, dementia, stroke, depres...
Loneliness increases the risk of premature death by nearly 30%, with the report revealing that those with poor social relationships also had a greater risk of stroke and heart disease. Isolation also elevates a person's likelihood for experiencing depression, anxiety and dementia. The surgeon gene...
surgeon general said Tuesday in declaring the latest public health epidemic. About half of U.S. adults say they’ve experienced loneliness, Dr. Vivek Murthy said in an 81-page report from his office. “We now know that loneliness is a common feeling that many people experience. It’s like...
“We now know that loneliness is a common feeling that many people experience. It’s like hunger or thirst. It’s a feeling the body sends us when something we need for survival is missing,” Murthy told The Associated Press in an interview. “Millions of people in America are struggling...
What are the lifestyle issues that kill Americans? You might guess smoking, obesity, or the raging opioid epidemic, and you’d be right. But you’d also be missing a quieter but also seriously deadly health menace, according to former surgeon general Vivek H. Murthy —loneliness. ...
Murthy told "CBS This Morning" Thursday that he himself struggled with loneliness as a child. "It's something I never even talked to my family about. But when I was a child I was very shy, it was hard for me to make friends and I felt lonely a lot, but I felt ashamed to tell ...
These are the U.S. surgeon general’s three easy ways to combat loneliness each day. 1. Reach out to someone Every day, Murthy reaches out to someone in his circle to catch up, ask how they are doing, or remind them he’s thinking of them., such as feeling grateful for a friend ...
In the recent advisory,Parents Under Pressure, the US Surgeon General noted that parents are morestressed,burned out, and lonely than ever. The alarming statistics are not all that different than his advisories on theYouth Mental HealthandLonelinessEpidemics that have been escalating since th...
Mike Stallard in Wellness By Michael Lee Stallard and Katharine P. Stallard The decline of social connection and rise of loneliness in the United States has caught the attention of the U.S. Surgeon General’s office, which prompted the publication of a new advisory. ...
The stressors faced by parents include classic concerns about finances and their children’s health and safety as well as “new challenges like navigating technology and social media, a youth mental health crisis, [and] an epidemic of loneliness,” the surgeon general stated in a press r...