Being lonely

Every month 650,000 people aged over 15 in New Zealand feel lonely at some point. Of those 243,000 feel lonely all of the time. In a time when we are so connected with social media why are we disconnected withe eachother in real life? Nigel Pizzini is a Counsellor Educator at Unitec and has been a counselor for 20 years he talks about what loneliness actually is and whther the UK solution of appointing a Minister for Loneliness is part of the solution.