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Loneliness isn’t something most people expect to define their late teens or twenties. Yet for many young adults today, it quietly does. Despite being constantly online, a growing number of people between 18 and 35 report feeling disconnected, isolated, and unsure how to build real relationships. Remote work, digital-first lives, and the long-term impact of the pandemic have reshaped how people interact, often leaving fewer chances for genuine connection. When Talking to Peopl

When mental health comes up online, the focus is usually on teens, students, or stressed-out millennials. But there’s a growing mental health crisis we barely talk about, older adults, and it’s closer to home than most people realize. By 2030, one in six people worldwide will be over the age of 60. By 2050, that number nearly doubles. This isn’t a distant issue for “someone else.” It affects our parents, grandparents, neighbors, and eventually, everyone. Aging Isn’t Just Phys

At first glance, it sounds like a dark joke. There’s a new app going viral called “Are You Dead?”  And yes, that’s actually the name. But once you look past the shock value, the reason people are downloading it hits uncomfortably close to home. The app was created in China, where it recently became the #1 paid app  on the Apple App Store. It’s also climbing the charts in the U.S., and the reason it’s blowing up has nothing to do with humor; it has everything to do with how m

Social media was supposed to bring us together. Global communities. Shared creativity. A space to belong. And it did, until it didn’t. At a recent Dartmouth and United Nations symposium , six former U.S. Surgeons General, Vivek Murthy, Jerome Adams, Antonia Coello Novello, Joycelyn Elders, Richard Carmona, and David Satcher, delivered a unanimous message: Social media isn’t just shaping the minds of young people. It’s shaping their health. A Generation in Distress “When one i

A young adult sits alone in their apartment, scrolling through TikTok at 2 a.m. A thousand videos pass by, but none of them make the...

We usually think of health as exercise, diet, and sleep, but your social life may be just as important, especially as you get older. A...

In an era where social media connects billions, why are so many people feeling lonelier than ever? Recent studies suggest that platforms...