When frequent and sustained, loneliness puts our body in a chronic stress state, leading to increased inflammation and greater risk for illness. People are feeling disconnected from others, and they lack a sense of community.īut why are we so lonely? Murthy identifies multiple causes: technology, mobility, work culture, commercialism, the tilt toward individualism and away from collectivism, and the weakening of social and community institutions-including a decline in religious activities. He discovered a larger issue underlying the epidemics of not only addiction but also anxiety, suicide, and violence.

Murthy traveled the country meeting with doctors, mental health professionals, and individuals to better understand the opioid addiction decimating communities-a crisis which has only grown larger in recent years. Vivek Murthy, transforms our understanding of the unexpected and grave threat to our health: loneliness. In this groundbreaking book, the 19th Surgeon General of the United States, Dr. “During my years caring for patients, the most common pathology I saw was not heart disease or diabetes it was loneliness.”-Vivek Murthy, Harvard Business Review Putnam’s Bowling Alone and Sebastian Junger’s Tribe, the 19th Surgeon General of the United States addresses what he calls a key, underappreciated public health issue-loneliness-and offers solutions for strengthening our real-world connections to counteract the forces driving depression, violence, addiction, and political polarization. Going beyond bestsellers such as Robert D. The Healing Power of Human Connection in a Sometimes Lonely World

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