People who opt for alone time aren’t sad, anti-social, or broken—they’ve simply embraced a lifestyle that aligns with their needs and values. 1.

Birthday parties should be exciting affairs with lots of people, balloons, and delicious cake, especially when you’re a teenager. But Hallee Sorenson from Maine turned 18 last year and invited ...

That’s divine solitude. Read: Why do we look down on lonely people? But as we’ve all experienced, Solitude Food can become a Lonely Food—and that’s when it turns sad.

With SAD, from mid-fall through winter, you may feel the symptoms of depression. “Maybe some loss of interested activity, poor energy, certainly, maybe some disruptions in sleep or changes in ...

“People are feeling very much alone,” Rochford said. NAMI Greater Cleveland volunteer Ben Seeley leads a discussion group about living with mental illness in 2019.

Ms. Hitchcock writes a newsletter about dining out in New York. I eat alone at restaurants — and I do it a lot. This usually seems to make people around me uncomfortable. Recently, I went to a ...

For some people in this group, dying was not the worst thing that could happen – being trapped in a care home was considered to be far worse than dying alone.