When Melissa came to see me, she felt her life was fast unraveling -- trouble with insomnia, plagued with a recurrent weight problem, and stressed to the point that she had even considered taking her ...

I texted my group chat one gloomy winter evening when I was 16, asking my friends to meet. When nobody replied to my text, I called them. The phone rang for a good 45 seconds before the call ...

After working from home all day, your takeout order arrives and you start binge-watching your favorite show alone. Sounds ideal, right? Except doing this routinely could shorten your life. And that’s ...

Surgeon General Vivek Murthy has declared that America is in the grip of a loneliness epidemic. There are many causes for this isolation, but here’s one few seem to have considered: barriers to ...