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 ...

Providing practical help to a close friend—such as picking up medication, cooking a meal or helping with household chores—may ...

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 ...