An Artist Whose Knits Are an Antidote to Loneliness

Four years ago, the writer and textile artist Patrick Carroll helped his father, who’d developed a neurodegenerative disorder, to arrange his physician-assisted suicide in California. “It completely changed how I operated,” he says, “having to step up and deliver my father’s death.” A month or so later, the pandemic lockdowns began; isolated and grieving, Carroll…

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How Loneliness Affects the Brain

Everyone feels lonely from time to time — after, say, a move to a new school or city, when a child leaves for college, or following the loss of a spouse. Some people, though, experience loneliness not just transiently but chronically. It becomes “a personality trait, something that’s pretty sticky,” said Dr. Ellen Lee, an…

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