During the pandemic, loneliness was its own epidemic, and young people felt the effects of being pulled from school and social lives hard. Research even showed young people felt lonelier than any other generations during the pandemic. But now that there are few restrictions keeping them from connecting with others in-person, feelings of loneliness have not simply disappeared, as the conditions causing this issue were not only pandemic-based. Loneliness in young people is fueled by struggles with mental health, talking openly with friends and as may be expected, social media. YPulse asks young people to rate how often they feel lonely, and their most recent answers show that loneliness is still a common feeling for them: Three in 10 young people often or always feel lonely On a scale from one to 10, where one is “never lonely,” and 10 is “lonely all the time,” more than a third of young people fall in the low-end category of “never/rarely lonely.” And a nearly equal amount falls in the middle...
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