A pill for loneliness

Some mental health experts weren’t happy with presidential candidate Marianne Williamson when she said that antidepressants get overprescribed for cases of “normal human despair.” But she was right that as a culture, we often rely blindly on medicine, rather than embracing holistic change.

For those who think there is medication for everything, scientists are working on a new pill to prove it. Researchers have been trying to use pregnenolone, a hormone produced by the adrenal gland, to cure loneliness, and University of Chicago scientist Stephanie Cacioppo thinks it can work.