What does loneliness look like in 2020? Is it an elderly Eleanor Rigby dying alone, or a self-contained Eleanor Oliphant pretending to be Absolutely Fine? Maybe it’s those snowflake twentysomethings afraid to leave their safe spaces, or miserable millennials who work high-pressure hours Monday to Friday, yet spend weekends without speaking to a soul. The stigma is lifting on many mental health issues. But loneliness remains horribly taboo.Credit:iStock It’s easy to dismiss loneliness as a condition of the outsider and the misfit. As human beings, we are programmed to be social and sociable, collaborative and community-minded; the lonely make a great many of us feel uncomfortable, ill at ease, suspicious at an unconscious level. If we are brutally honest, at some level, we assume they are culpable for the situation in which they find themselves; they should make more effort, put themselves out there, be more proactive. But what […]