Isolation is unhealthy (as if we didn’t know that already) [Article]

Yes, we did.. but just how much impact does it have? While exploring this crisis of loneliness in the Western world, Judith Shulevitz writes about the inspiration behind the book, the movie  & the song “I never promised you a rose garden” – therapist Frieda Fromm-Reichmann who:

“figured that loneliness lay at the heart of nearly all mental illness and that the lonely person was just about the most terrifying spectacle in the world.”

Makes for great weekend reading.

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