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Solving the Loneliness Epidemic

2023/11/21
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Tavia Gilbert 和 Richard Sergei：本期节目探讨了美国日益严重的孤独感疫情，指出许多美国人感到孤独或缺乏朋友，并援引了皮尤研究中心和凯撒家庭基金会的数据。他们还介绍了美国外科医生 Vivek H. Murthy 的报告，该报告将孤独和疏离感视为对个人和国家健康都有负面影响的公共卫生问题。他们还讨论了孤独感的定义及其与慢性压力之间的关系。 Emiliana Simon-Thomas：Simon-Thomas 博士认为，快节奏的生活方式减少了人们进行非正式社交互动的机会，加剧了孤独感。她还指出，老年人、青少年以及生活在贫困或不平等环境中的人群更容易遭受孤独感的困扰。她认为，数字技术对青少年孤独感的影响尚不明确，需要进一步研究，但过度依赖数字技术可能会取代面对面互动。她还强调了社会不平等加剧社会两极分化和孤独感，因为它会减少人们的同情心。她建议，个人可以通过加深信任、促进合作和重新思考社会结构来对抗孤独感。社区应该创造更多机会让人们以非正式的方式聚集在一起，分享经验，讨论道德和人生意义。她还认为，虽然亲近自然有益于身心健康，但人际关系才是对抗孤独感的关键。最后，她对战胜孤独感疫情持乐观态度，因为人类天生就渴望社会联系。

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The episode discusses the rising prevalence of loneliness in America, highlighting statistics from the Pew Research Center and the Kaiser Family Foundation, and quoting the Surgeon General's report on its impact on individual and national health.

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It’s Thanksgiving week in the United States, and this Thursday, many of us will be with friends and family for the kick-off to six weeks of holiday cheer. But for so many people in America, the holidays can be a very lonely time. Loneliness and disconnection have consequences not only for individual health, but for the health of the nation.

Dr. Emiliana Simon-Thomas) is the Science Director at UC Berkeley's Greater Good Science Center, which tracks cutting edge research studies that focus on how important our relationships, our tendency towards generosity and cooperation, and our sense of mattering or contribution to our communities are to our health and wellbeing over the course of our lives. She wants to understand the science of loneliness.

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