The psychologist Buenaventura del Charco, on loneliness: "It's the same as smoking a pack of tobacco a day"

Undesired loneliness has been consolidated as one of the main challenges in the field of mental health in today’s society. Although it often goes unnoticed, its consequences can become as serious as those of some chronic physical diseases. This phenomenon particularly affects two age groups: young people and the elderly, generating a curve in the form of U. In Catalonia, for example, 28.4% of young people between 18 and 34 years of age experienc…

In the column “Tear to think”, the philosopher Santiago de Arteaga brought as a theme “A way of thinking the loneliness in old age”, where he reflected on how solitude is treated at that stage of life and if it is different to other solitudes. De Arteaga told that he has been “turning” this topic for a while for personal reasons and as a trigger recalled some verses of the Argentine writer Julio Cortázar: “In the golden penumbra of the lamp I ha…