You're Not Listening: What You're Missing and Why It Matters

by Kate Murphy

much as obesity and alcoholism combined. The negative health impact is worse than smoking fourteen cigarettes per day.

epidemiological studies have found links between loneliness and heart disease, stroke, dementia, and poor immune function.

World Health Organization reports that in the last forty-five years, suicide rates are

up 60 percent globally.

The number of school-age children and adolescents hospitalized for suicidal thoughts or attempts has more than doubled since 2008.

indicator of feelings of connectedness. People who fear intimacy tend to use divisive, put-down, or mean humor, which discourages listening by making people defensive.

how children talk out loud to themselves to work through problems and regulate their emotions.