Okay, I’ll admit it: “I’m so lonely” (if I may quote Saoirse Ronan in Little Women). It’s been over a month of solo self-quarantine, and the solitude, which felt fine at first, has become frequently miserable. (I can feel the parents who might be reading this rolling their eyes, though, and I don’t blame them.)
Although it’s a huge privilege to be responsible only for myself right now, it’s also a recipe for stress and anxiety. “The worst thing that we can do as humans is to imagine a future where we are alone,” social neuroscientist Dr. Stephanie Cacioppo
