This group is now the loneliest in the US, poll reveals inside the shocking epidemic

A new Gallup poll has revealed that American men are the loneliest people.To conduct their poll, researchers collected data from 2023 to 2024 — and discovered that US Gen Z and millennial men are the loneliest (25%) compared to only 18% of American women in the same age group.That means that one in four American men under 35 feel more isolated than their peers in other countries — including France, Canada, Ireland and Spain.Although this group seems to be the loneliest, that isn’t to say this same demographic in other countries aren’t also feeling secluded — and for similar reasons.The Gallup study and Fortune Well reported that one in five young men in places like Turkey, France, Ireland and Canada are reportedly feeling just as alone.This common feeling of isolation “is the coming to a head of a set of forces that have been in existence in boys’ and mens’ lives for generations,” psychologist Michael Reichert, founding director of the Center for the Study of Boys’ and Girls’ Lives at the University of Pennsylvania and author of “How to Raise a Boy: The Power of Connection to Build Good Men” told Fortune Well.

And what exactly is causing today’s generation of young men to feel so secluded from the outside world?According to experts, it’s from a variety of things.Justin Yong, a New York City psychotherapist, told Fortune that men are disconnecting from the rest of the world thanks to toxic digital occupiers like gaming and porn that “give this short term dopamine hit and relief that replaces real intimacy and acts as a barrier to being vulnerable to how they might be feeling.”Another ongoing issue among young men is “societal norms around what it means to be a man,” Yong told the outlet.

“The problem, of course, is that when they became less authentic, they alienated themselves from even their important relationships, feeling that they had to hide a part of themselves because the world didn’t want that from them… Beginn...