Best quotes by Vivek Murthy on Loneliness

Checkout quotes by Vivek Murthy on Loneliness

• ‟ While loneliness has the potential to kill, connection has even more potential to heal.

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• ‟ What defines loneliness is our internal comfort level.

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• ‟ I trained in internal medicine, and I expected most of my time would be spent on diabetes or heart disease or cancer. What I didn't expect was that so many people I saw would be struggling with loneliness.

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• ‟ As prevalent as loneliness is, many people don't recognize that people that they know may very well be suffering from loneliness. It's important for many reasons, one of which is that it has a profound impact on health.

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• ‟ Part of the reason people don't talk about their loneliness is that they feel they will be judged for it.

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• ‟ When I was Surgeon General, I spent a lot of time talking to people in living rooms and town halls all across the country, and one of the things I started to notice was that behind many of the stories of addiction, violence, depression and anxiety were threads of loneliness.

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• ‟ There are several factors in modern society that contribute to loneliness. One is that we are more mobile than we have been in decades past, which is fantastic in many respects, but also leads to us to move away from communities that we grew up with and got to know over time.

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• ‟ Loneliness is different than isolation and solitude. Loneliness is a subjective feeling where the connections we need are greater than the connections we have. In the gap, we experience loneliness. It's distinct from the objective state of isolation, which is determined by the number of people around you.

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• ‟ Service is a powerful pathway of getting out of loneliness. It takes the focus off of you and puts it onto someone else.

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• ‟ Loneliness can become a downward spiral.

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• ‟ If you use that time where you're alone in ways that bring you joy and peace, then that solitude can have a really positive effect on your life.

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• ‟ One of the things that happens in our regular lives is that when we're in moments of pain or feeling alone, we may hesitate to reach out to others because we may think - they're not going through the same experiences I am.

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• ‟ We know that chronic loneliness has consequences. It certainly depresses our mood. And in terms of our health, people who struggle with loneliness also have an increased risk for cardiovascular disease, dementia, depression, and anxiety. Loneliness is also associated with a shorter lifespan.

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