A Wolf Is Only As Strong As It’s Pack

This idea that you are not alone is true, but only if you allow people to be there for you. In today’s society we are so connected to the online world,we are disconnecting from the real world. With this disconnection from the world we are missing out on all the different connection we can make with other people around us. Yes it can be scary talking to new people, and yes some can be mean but not everyone is and those are the people that everyone can use in their life.

Friends don’t just keep you company

Friend are always good to have because yes they listen and hangout with you, but they have a bigger role than that. The role they also play in is your mental and physical health. I say this because disconnection from other people causes loneliness and loneliness can lead to depression. The problem with this is that loneliness is like a shadow that you can’t always see but it’s there, and this shadow only seems to be getting bigger and bigger in today’s society. In Johann Hari’s book Lost Connections “isolated people were more likely to die during this period” (Page 75). He also states that “‘loneliness is not merely the result of depression…indeed it leads to depression… definitely had the starring role'” (Page 76). So in another words by taking yourself away from other people you are not just causing depression in yourself, you are also cutting your life shorter than it is expected to be.

Loneliness is a drug problem that needs to be fixed

In today’s society we go along with this idea that our social media is connecting us to one another, but in reality it’s doing the opposite. According to the article Loneliness and Social Isolation by Christina L. Lyons “reliance on technology in place of face-to-face discourse.” With this it gives insight into how technology is a problem in loneliness. To further explain the role of technology it can connect us to people who don’t live close but it is starting to effect the time we can use to spend in the present with the people around us. Lyons also states “Some researchers contend that Americans are no lonelier than in past generations, and they say technology can bring people closer together as well as drive them apart.” This statement backs up the idea that “loneliness hangs over our culture today like a thick smog” (page 73) which was stated by Hari. In other words because of technology we are now in a state that loneliness is normal, which is not true now and it never should have been considered normal. With this idea depression in today’s time is at its highest level it has ever been at. According to Health-line “estimated that 16.2 million adults in the United States, or 6.7 percent of American adults, have had at least one major depressive episode in a given year.” Now knowing this doesn’t help that loneliness is rising ,which only increases depression as well.Which is why all doctors should “treat loneliness and isolation with the same urgency as drug abuse or other major social ills” which Lyons suggest we do.