# We created health guidelines for fighting loneliness – here’s what we recommend

- Link: https://www.widthness.com/we-created-health-guidelines-for-fighting-loneliness-heres-what-we-recommend/
- Published: 2025-11-25T09:45:00-06:00
- Author: Curated by John Wysocki

Photo credit: Meg via Unsplash. Article by Daniel P. Aldrich and Kiffer George Card. The Conversation – November 24, 2025. Social isolation kills. It increases your risk of death by 30% — roughly the same as smoking cigarettes and much worse than factors such as obesity and sedentary living. Americans are living through what researchers call a friendship recession, spending less time with friends than at any point in recent history. In 2023, the U.S. Surgeon General declared loneliness an epidemic. Deaths from factors like suicide, addiction and alcoholism, referred to as deaths of despair, continue climbing. […] Click here to view original web page at www.theconversation.com