FUNCTIONAL LONELINESS

Why We Feel Alone Together and What Helps Us ReconnectBy Dr. Josh Harari
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You have a full life. You're just not being felt in it. The Functional Loneliness is for the person who answers every message, holds everyone together, and still goes home to a quiet that doesn't feel like peace. The person whose life looks fine from the outside — and who's exhausted from maintaining that view. This isn't a book about being alone. It's about being under-felt. About the gap between the connections you have and the connection you actually need. About why the most capable, social, seemingly-together people are often the loneliest — and why nobody checks on them. Part psychology, part cultural critique, part honest conversation —Dr. Josh Harari in The Functional Loneliness names something most people have felt but never had words for. And then, carefully, it shows a way through.

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Rating★★★★ 4.0 (1)
GenreSelf-Help, Psychology
Length2 hrs 13 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMay 16, 2023
LanguageEnglish

Table of contents

1Introduction
2IntroductionThe Loneliness Nobody Talks About
3Chapter 1:The Invisible Epidemic
4Chapter 2:Always Connected, Rarely Known
5Chapter 3:Nobody Checks on the Functional Ones
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6Chapter 4:The Body That Misses Touch
7Chapter 5:Micro-Abandonments
8Chapter 6:Being Needed vs. Being Loved
9Chapter 7:When Nobody Witnesses Your Inner Life
10Chapter 8:Emotional Starvation in Modern Relationships
11Chapter 9:The Exhaustion of Carrying Yourself Alone
12Chapter 10:The Culture That Made Us This Way
13Chapter 11:Performing Fine
14Chapter 12:What It Actually Takes
15Chapter 13:How to Recognize Someone Who Can Actually Hold YouAnd how to become someone who can hold others
16Epilogue

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