Break the Mental Health Stigma: Loneliness

Statistics show that millions of people around the world are living with loneliness. While this is such a large proportion of the population, there is still a lot of stigma surrounding it. This results in discriminatory actions and attitudes towards people who are living with loneliness, on both a personal and public level. Mental health stigma has a number of harmful impacts such as reduced hope, lower self-esteem, increased psychiatric symptoms, difficulty with social relationships, and reduced likelihood of getting or staying with treatment.

This Research Topic aims to showcase evidence on why the stigma surrounding loneliness is so detrimental to those living with it. It hopes to provide insights to research and interventions on how this stigma can be tackled and awareness raised, in the hope that the research presented will translate to best practice applications in clinical, public health, and policy settings.

We invite researchers to submit a range of articles including but not limited to original research articles, reviews, meta-analyses, opinions, perspectives, and case reports to provide new evidence on the following:

- Harmful impacts of stigma on people suffering from loneliness.

- Interventions on reducing stigma surrounding loneliness.

- Health promotion in loneliness.

- Interventions in raising awareness for loneliness.

Keywords: loneliness, stigma, awareness, promotion, interventions

Important note: All contributions to this Research Topic must be within the scope of the section and journal to which they are submitted, as defined in their mission statements. Frontiers reserves the right to guide an out-of-scope manuscript to a more suitable section or journal at any stage of peer review.