Hugh Mackay: Social isolation – a leading cause of anxiety

Blog post1 min readUpdated Feb 23, 2025View source ↗

The big commentary on contemporary Australia highlights how we’ve become socially fragmented to the extent that we have an epidemic of anxiety. Pioneering Australian social researcher, Hugh Mackay, discusses our essential need to belong to herds and tribes - how we thrive in them and wither without them.. This post Hugh Mackay: Social isolation – a leading cause of anxietyappeared first on Kerwin Rae..

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