He explains that our bodies are wired for connection with other humans because those connections have throughout our history been so closely associated with our survival. Murthy suggests that we instead ought to think of loneliness more like other biological conditions. While many of us fear that our loneliness suggests that there is something wrong with or undesirable about us, Dr. He argues quite convincingly that society has somewhat misdiagnosed the condition. Murthy traces the evolutionary reasons that loneliness has such an effect on human beings. Murthy argues that loneliness is a huge social and medical problem but one that has a solution. In Together: The Healing Power of Connection in a Sometimes Lonely World, Dr.
He wants us to answer it because he has seen the impact that loneliness can have on his individual patients and the consequences that those individual stories-played out millions of times over-has on our system of public health.
At least, for many years of my own life, I know that I didn't.īut Vivek Murthy, M.D., our once and current Surgeon General wants us to answer that question both individually and collectively. I mean, if you are lonely, it raises the awful question as to why? Who wants to answer that? Nobody. As a result, the idea of loneliness for Americans is almost taboo. As an introvert, I agree with Susan Cain's assessment that our culture is more inclined to favor the proclivities of our extrovert friends.
If I told you that I read a book about loneliness and really enjoyed it, you might think I was insane.
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