Ivy Tech Libraries: Loneliness: Online Resources

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
CDC is the nation’s leading science-based, data-driven, service organization that protects the public’s health. For more than 70 years, we’ve put science into action to help children stay healthy so they can grow and learn; to help families, businesses, and communities fight disease and stay strong; and to protect the public’s health.
Coalition to End Social Isolation & Loneliness
The Coalition to End Social Isolation and Loneliness engages in a variety of areas in order to advance its mission including disseminating research findings, developing and advocating for federal and state legislative and regulatory policy interventions, and leading public awareness events in Washington, D.C. as well as across the nation. The full Coalition and its committees meet in-person and via phone on a regular basis to advance these activities.
The Cost of Loneliness Project
The Cost of Loneliness Project™ will connect, convene, and catalyze to identify challenges and research needs; to innovate, share, and leverage solutions; to serve as a resource repository on loneliness; to increase awareness of the costs of loneliness with a goal of destigmatizing this devastating condition; and to create a platform for sharing ideas and solutions.

This video explores loneliness versus solitude through the lens of Buddhism and the importance of feeling at home with oneself.

The U.S. Surgeon General declared a new public health epidemic in America, loneliness. A new report finds loneliness can have profound effects on mental health as well as heart disease, stroke and dementia.

Being open and vulnerable with your loneliness, sadness and fear can help you find comfort and feel less alone, says writer and artist Jonny Sun. In an honest talk filled with his signature illustrations, Sun shares how telling stories about feeling like an outsider helped him tap into an unexpected community and find a tiny sliver of light in the darkness.

Welcome to breaking modern loneliness, an episodic podcast where each episode is a new open forum discussion on all things human relationships, mental health, and technology.

Paul Cann from the Campaign to End Loneliness discusses the effects of chronic loneliness; exploring ways of combating it by connecting people and ideas.

The Lonely Hour is a podcast about loneliness–but it’s not a bummer. Host Julia Bainbridge has created a space to talk openly in hopes of both de-stigmatizing loneliness and underscoring the joys of solitude.