What Is Loneliness And Why It Is So Hard To Escape

From the one who fights it.

Julia Korsunska
5 min readMar 5, 2023

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About 33% of adults experienced feelings of loneliness worldwide. This number may be even higher, given the isolation and stigma that often come along. I myself was lonely in various ways (will talk about it later), and I still am; that has driven my interest in the topic. Although yet I can’t be proud of overcoming my loneliness…

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Julia Korsunska

Former Software Dev | Sociology student | Ukrainian. Writing about war, life, books and society. Based in Kraków, Poland @thejuliakors