Gen Z Filipinos, the loneliest youths in Southeast Asia, are struggling. This is how and why

Clinical counselor Violeta Bautista claimed that parents who do not travel overseas often leave their children in the provinces to function in cities and then return to see them occasionally.

” I’ve met some younger people who talk about a sense of never being supported, … of longing for network, because they grew up not having kids to link them, to take care of their cultural requirements”.

MENTAL AND PHYSICAL Effects

Loneliness can have a devastating effect. And those affected are getting younger.

” When loneliness gets to be your accompanying experience day in and day out, when it keeps you from studying well, working in the office, if it makes you stay away from social relations to the point ( where ) you find yourself unable to experience satisfaction, … then it’s no longer normal human loneliness”, said Bautista.

” It does move towards major depressive disorder”.