Ireland may be enjoying stellar economic growth and seen as one of the best places in the world to live, but its inhabitants are apparently also the globe’s loneliest.

Google Trends, which works out how many searches have been done via the Internet search engine on particular terms, showed the word “lonely” was entered most frequently [...]

Article courtesy of: New Directions Behavioral Health.
 
Loneliness is a primary source of “deprivation” stress. People can experience the same physical and emotional impacts from loneliness as they do from work overload or difficult life circumstances. But can children feel loneliness? Research indicates that children as young as kindergarten not only have the capacity to [...]