Living With Loneliness
Wonder Cabinet
Wonder Cabinet Productions
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 21 May 2022
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
After a pandemic year of social isolation, we knew loneliness would be a problem. But public health officials have been warning for years that in countries all over the world, rates of loneliness are skyrocketing. How did loneliness become a condition of modern life?
Original Air Date: April 10, 2021
Guests:
Jason Rohrer — Samantha Rose Hill — Claudia Rankine
Interviews In This Hour:
My Friend Samantha (The A.I.) — How Loneliness Can Lead to Totalitarianism — Being Black and Alone in America
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| 0:00.0 | Hey friends, it's Anne. |
| 0:05.6 | And I want to talk to you about something we've all experienced a lot this year. |
| 0:11.1 | Loneliness. |
| 0:12.9 | Which can strike no matter where or how you live, |
| 0:16.5 | alone in a tiny studio apartment or in a house surrounded by friends or family. |
| 0:22.6 | Loneliness is not the same as social isolation, although that definitely makes it worse. |
| 0:28.2 | So what exactly is it? And how do we get through it? |
| 0:33.2 | Questions we'll try to answer in this episode of To the Best of Our Knowledge. |
| 0:38.4 | Keep listening. |
| 0:44.4 | Wisconsin Public Radio. |
| 0:53.8 | As to the best of our knowledge, I'm Anne Strange Champs. |
| 0:57.0 | It has been a lonely year for most of us. |
| 1:06.0 | So maybe it's time to stop and ask ourselves. On a scale of 1 to 10, just how lonely are we? |
| 1:15.6 | How often do you feel unhappy doing so many things alone? How often do you feel yourself waiting for people to call or to text? |
| 1:31.3 | Starved for company. |
| 1:33.3 | No one to talk to. |
| 1:36.3 | How often do you feel it's hard for you to make friends? |
| 1:42.3 | Shut out or excluded by others. |
| 1:45.0 | Unable to reach out and communicate with those around you. |
| 1:48.0 | How often do you feel as if no one understands you? |
| 1:51.0 | How often do you feel you can't tolerate being so alone? |
| 1:55.0 | Completely alone. |
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