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Researchers are working on a pill for loneliness, as studies suggest condition is worse than obesity
National Post ^ | Aug. 12, 2019 | Sharon Kirkey

Posted on 08/12/2019 3:19:24 PM PDT by rickmichaels

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1 posted on 08/12/2019 3:19:24 PM PDT by rickmichaels
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To: rickmichaels

A pill is not the solution.

There are already too many pills purporting to help people’s mental states.


2 posted on 08/12/2019 3:22:51 PM PDT by Innovative
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To: rickmichaels

The need to work on a pill for a disease worse than loneliness. Get the pill to combat liberalism, progresivism, communism; It’s a deadly disease, worse than any other affliction in human history.


3 posted on 08/12/2019 3:25:03 PM PDT by adorno
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To: rickmichaels

“In the year 3535
Ain’t gonna need to tell the truth, tell no lies
Everything you think, do, and say
Is in the pill you took today”

(1969 song, Zager and Evans, “In the Year 2525”)


4 posted on 08/12/2019 3:26:02 PM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: rickmichaels

We used to call these people losers.


5 posted on 08/12/2019 3:27:27 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: rickmichaels

That’s it, we need a pill to solve loneliness. Let’s not address the low trust, postmodern hellscape ruins of what was our society that is causing these feelings.


6 posted on 08/12/2019 3:27:54 PM PDT by Shadow44
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To: rickmichaels

Prayer might work as well.


7 posted on 08/12/2019 3:29:17 PM PDT by Raycpa
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To: Innovative

Besides, chocolate already does the trick. Or so they say


8 posted on 08/12/2019 3:31:40 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: rickmichaels

Easier to get their noses out of their phones.

A recent study said millinnials, the wealthiest young people of all time, weren’t dating because it costs too much... sigh.


9 posted on 08/12/2019 3:32:09 PM PDT by bgill
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“... low trust, postmodern hellscape ruins ...”

but at least we have lots of cheap consumer products and entertainment! sarcasm.

But seriously, I’m not sure how we even address the situation at this point. It probably has to fail in some fashion in order to get better.


10 posted on 08/12/2019 3:32:29 PM PDT by cdcdawg (Fact: Dogs can extract more info from smelling a pile of $h!t than humans can from viewing CNN)
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To: adorno

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11 posted on 08/12/2019 3:34:12 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: cdcdawg

It has to eventually. This system can’t sustain itself at this point. Nobody wants to live a life where you spend all your free time cooped up at home consuming media online and having plastic junk shipped to your residence because you don’t feel safe to go out in public. I can’t say I have solutions either, but we can all agree that this is not what society is supposed to be like.


12 posted on 08/12/2019 3:35:32 PM PDT by Shadow44
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To: rickmichaels

Yes, they’re sharing a drink they call “loneliness”
But it’s better than drinking alone.

-Billy Joel


13 posted on 08/12/2019 3:35:56 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: rickmichaels

Aren’t there still hookers?


14 posted on 08/12/2019 3:37:52 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: familyop

A truly great song and still gives me the chills today like it did the first time I heard it.


15 posted on 08/12/2019 3:39:58 PM PDT by Dahoser
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To: rickmichaels

Incredible. Go get a job, or volunteer at a church or something.


16 posted on 08/12/2019 3:41:06 PM PDT by Openurmind
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To: dfwgator

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxEPV4kolz0


17 posted on 08/12/2019 3:42:35 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: Shadow44

Right on the money.


18 posted on 08/12/2019 3:42:46 PM PDT by Openurmind
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To: Rurudyne

A good pizza or grilled burgers w steak fries.


19 posted on 08/12/2019 3:44:30 PM PDT by wally_bert (Hola. Me llamo Inspector Carlton Lassiter. Me gusta queso.)
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To: dfwgator

I drink alone, yeah
With nobody else
I drink alone, yeah
With nobody else
You know when I drink alone
I prefer to be by myself

Every morning just before breakfast
I don’t want no coffee or tea
Just me and good buddy Wiser
That’s all I ever need
‘Cause I drink alone, yeah
With nobody else
Yeah, you know when I drink alone
I prefer to be by myself

The other night I laid sleeping
And I woke from a terrible dream
So I caught up my pal Jack Daniel’s
And his partner Jimmy Beam
And we drank alone, yeah
With nobody else
Yeah, you know when I drink alone
I prefer to be by myself

The other day I got invited to a party
But I stayed home instead
Just me and my pal Johnnie Walker
And his brothers Black and Red
And we drank alone, yeah
With nobody else
Yeah, you know when I drink alone
I prefer to be by myself

My whole family done give up on me
And it makes me feel oh so bad
The only one who will hang out with me
Is my dear Old Grand-Dad
And we drink alone, yeah
With nobody else
Yeah, you know when I drink alone
I prefer to be by myself

George Thorogood


20 posted on 08/12/2019 3:45:03 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s........you weren't really there)
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