These days, loneliness is the new cancer - a shameful, embarrassing thing, brought upon yourself in some obscure way. A fearful, incurable thing thing, so horrifying that you dare not mention it; other people don't want to hear the word spoken aloud for fear that they might too be afflicted, or that it might tempt fate into visiting a similar horror upon them. Gail Honeyman
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According to epidemiologist Jean Twenge, author of The Narcissism Epidemic, loneliness is the new cancer. According to her research, the number of people who are lonely has more than doubled since the 1970s.

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