{"id":948,"date":"2018-05-21T17:30:15","date_gmt":"2018-05-21T16:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.radicallyopen.test\/?p=948"},"modified":"2018-05-21T17:30:15","modified_gmt":"2018-05-21T16:30:15","slug":"an-epidemic-of-loneliness-theres-no-shortage-of-people-in-the-world-so-why-are-so-many-so-lonely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.radicallyopen.net\/blog\/an-epidemic-of-loneliness-theres-no-shortage-of-people-in-the-world-so-why-are-so-many-so-lonely\/","title":{"rendered":"An Epidemic of Loneliness: There&#8217;s no shortage of people in the world. So why are so many so lonely?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many people all over the world express feeling a tremendous\u00a0<a class=\"inline-links topic-link\" title=\"Psychology Today looks at loneliness\" href=\"https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/us\/basics\/loneliness\">loneliness<\/a>.\u00a0Frieda Fromm Reichmann defines loneliness as the want of\u00a0<a class=\"inline-links topic-link\" title=\"Psychology Today looks at intimacy\" href=\"https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/us\/basics\/relationships\">intimacy<\/a>, and it has long been recognized as a serious and painful issue. Mother Teresa once said, \u201cThe biggest disease today is not leprosy or cancer or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted, uncared for, and deserted by everybody.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/us\/blog\/pieces-mind\/201805\/epidemic-loneliness\">Read the full blog by Karyn Hall, PhD, on Psychology Today<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><em>About the Author: Karyn Hall, Ph.D.<\/em><\/h3>\n<p>Karyn Hall, Ph.D. is the Director of the DBT Center in Houston, Texas. She is the author of four books and has been a speaker both nationally and internationally. She is intensively trained in RO DBT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many people all over the world express feeling a tremendous\u00a0loneliness.\u00a0Frieda Fromm Reichmann defines loneliness as the want of\u00a0intimacy, and it has long been recognized as a serious and painful issue. Mother Teresa once said, \u201cThe biggest disease today is not leprosy or cancer or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted, uncared for, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":949,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radicallyopen.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radicallyopen.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radicallyopen.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radicallyopen.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radicallyopen.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.radicallyopen.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radicallyopen.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radicallyopen.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radicallyopen.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radicallyopen.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}