The Loneliness Epidemic: How To Overcome Isolation and Regain Meaningful Connection

Imani State of Mind

Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Hobbies, Education, Leisure, Self-improvement

4.8 • 764 Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2024

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

“Allll byyyy myyyy seh-eh-elf… don’t want to be!” - Maxine Shaw

FACT: Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, half of U.S. adults reported experiencing loneliness. Social connections, ranging from friendships to brief encounters with strangers, are beneficial to us all. These relationships are crucial for leading a fulfilled life. In today's episode, Dr. Imani and MegScoop tackle this issue head-on, exploring how to overcome isolation and rebuild meaningful connections. Plus, they discuss the pop culture diagnosis for the cast of the Netflix documentary, ‘The Curious Case of Natalia Grace.’

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, what's going on?
0:11.0	Welcome to I'm Dr. Imani, in case you didn't know.
0:18.0	I'm a make a scoop.
0:19.0	How are you?
0:20.0	Hi, I'm fine. You got the smart glasses. It's a smart episode today. I scoop. How are you? Hi, I'm fine.
0:21.7	You got your smart glasses.
0:22.7	It's a smart episode today. I know.
0:23.1	I got my smart glasses that I've been trying to clean incessantly all morning because I have eyelashes.
0:29.1	And so there's like little like blank streaks.
0:32.5	It's really annoying.
0:33.8	Yeah.
0:34.6	But I'm like please I'm like I told my whole family I was like when I
0:37.9	die like bear me make sure my eyelashes and my nails are done like yeah I'm like make
0:43.0	sure my eyelashes and my nails are done that is funny yeah because like like these glasses
0:47.9	may have streaks on them but I'm still going to keep these eyelashes so that is hilarious
0:52.7	yeah like I'm not playing that's funny so your
0:54.7	lash lady got to come and put lashes on a dead on a corpse yep yeah I'm gonna be all like like
1:00.2	little X's on my eyes that's pretty little little lashes on a little X's
1:04.5	I'd be like uh how much y'all paid me to do this? Like, listen.
1:11.7	I'm like,
1:12.0	I love her,
1:12.6	but she ain't go do that I didn't do it.
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