Hello and welcome to another episode of I Way with Jermela Jamil. Happy fucking New Year.

Thank God it's over and we're alive, we're still alive. Barely, but we're still here. We made it through

well done, well fucking done. Whether or not you have abs, I don't. Whether or not you have

evolved or devolved, I've devolved. I'm definitely a way worse and just generally crapper and less

impressive person than I was at the beginning of last year when I thought 2020 was it.

It was going to step into my full beast mode. I didn't. I went full sloth with tits. It was very sad,

but it's okay because now we're going to start again. To kick off the New Year, I've chosen

an old topic perhaps. Maybe you think that I should start with something very, very motivational,

but instead I wanted to talk about loneliness because I think it was one of the biggest and most

important subjects of last year and really all of the years of our lives. We don't talk about loneliness

enough. It's something that I've experienced many times throughout my life, not just as a child,

but even as an adult, once, once three years between the age of like 24 and 27 without

having a cuddle or shagging anyone or really talking to anyone or leaving my house very much

unless it was for work, we are all prone to it and we all think that we're the only ones going through it.

And the statistics show that the vast majority of our generation feels incredibly lonely.

The stats are something like 60% in some countries, 70% 80% in some countries of people feel

so desperately alone. And if we don't talk about it and if we don't desigmatise it and if we don't

learn about the detriment of loneliness and really just have this conversation, we're never going to

be able to get out of it. And what I learned from Dr Vivek Murphy, who was my guest today,

who's written a book on loneliness, is the impact it has on your health and the impact it has on

the on every single facet and the impact it has on every single facet of your life and tips

of how to get out there and how to find people and find your community. This is a big, big opportunity

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