Loneliness, anxiety and COVID-19: Advice for living from the nation's top doctor.
U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy testifies during a Senate Finance Committee hearing about youth mental health on Capitol Hill on Feb. 8, 2022, in Washington.
According to Murthy, a smart, warm and highly articulate person who struck us as a viable candidate for further public office in the future, young people tell him they feel bad about themselves because they feel compelled to retreat into their phones, and begin comparing themselves with others with greater achievements, or who appear to doing cooler things.
This situation, he said, is the cause of far more of our problems than we currently realize. And it needs fixing. We hope he prevails over the resistance that those sites are sure to mount. And, Murthy said, there now is compelling evidence that isolation and loneliness also means an increased risk of heart disease, dementia and other serious health problems.
But he also noted that allowing the “political polarization” of the debate over all of the COVID-19 issues brought dire consequences.
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