Mr Phillips said another factor contributing to feelings of isolation was that people were working harder than ever before.
The team of academics said people living in the capital suffered greater feelings of isolation and weaker feelings of belonging.
Ms Patchett tracks Marina's thoughts with particular intuitiveness so that her character's feelings of isolation, fear and self-doubt begin to creep across the reader's own skin.
The projects are aimed at tackling mental health problems in rurally isolated areas in unique ways - helping to reduce feelings of isolation that add to stress, anxiety, and depression.
This situation leads to an infuriating vicious circle, in which teachers often don't take travellers seriously because of their poor record of staying on, thereby exacerbating their feelings of isolation and despondency.
Meanwhile, we parents will continue to explain to our kids, who have already grown up trying to overcome feelings of isolation and difference, that what Lanza did has no more to do with them than if he were diabetic or left handed -- and I'll admire and love my son more every day for teaching me to think out of the box.
This helped me overcome my feelings of inadequacy and isolation.
Worries about money and increasing ill health and feelings of loneliness or isolation are common for older people with HIV, again amplified versions of those their HIV negative peers report.
BBC: 'Nobody is prepared' - The challenges of ageing with HIV
How else can we break free of our legacy of isolation, of too rarely sharing our feelings?
When I first came home, there were months of isolation where I was too proud and too ashamed to talk about my feelings -- a downward spiral that almost ended in suicide.
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