Together: The Healing Power of Human Connection in a Sometimes Lonely World

In this book from the former Surgeon General of the United States, explore how loneliness can negatively impact health and learn how to take steps to address the causes of loneliness in your own life. Traveling the country meeting with doctors in an attempt to understand the opioid crisis, Dr. Vivek Murthy was surprised to discover the extent to which loneliness and its symptoms are harming the American public. Addiction, anxiety, suicide, and violence are all on the rise, and only getting worse as the years go by. Murthy points towards commercialism, the abundance of technology, the demands of an increasingly all-consuming work culture, and a decline in community-oriented activities as causes of this epidemic of loneliness, and suggests that the way to confront this crisis is through building a more connected world. A powerful and timely book that has only grown more relevant since the start of the pandemic. 

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