the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Ridgewood NJ according to VOX.com ,22% of millennials say they have “no friends”, 25% say they don’t even have acquaintances. 30% feel lonely. This is the highest percentage of all the generations surveyed.
Members of the millennial generation are ages 23 to 38. These ought to be prime years of careers taking off and starting families, before joints really begin to ache. Yet as a recent poll and some corresponding research indicate, there’s something missing for many in this generation: companionship.
A recent poll from YouGov, a polling firm and market research company, found that 30 percent of millennials say they feel lonely. This is the highest percentage of all the generations surveyed.
Furthermore, 22 percent of millennials in the poll said they had zero friends. Twenty-seven percent said they had “no close friends,” 30 percent said they have “no best friends,” and 25 percent said they have no acquaintances. (I wonder if the poll respondents have differing thoughts on what “acquaintance” means; I take it to mean “people you interact with now and then.”)
The up-and-coming Gen Z report high levels of loneliness. In comparison, just 16 percent of Gen Xers and 9 percent of baby boomers say they have no friends.
Loneliness is associated with higher blood pressure and heart disease — it literally breaks our hearts.
A 2015 meta-review of 70 studies showed that loneliness increases the risk of dying by 26 percent. (Compare that to depression and anxiety, which is associated with a comparable 21 percent increase in mortality.)
https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2019/8/1/20750047/millennials-poll-loneliness
You have some serious resentments and hangups that should be dealt with.
The cell is there buddy!