Lost Connections is a book about Discovering the Real Cause of Depression – And Unexpected Solutions by author Johann Hari.
What really causes depression and anxiety. How can we really solve them? Award-winning journalist Johann Hari suffered from depression at an early age and started taking antidepressants as a teenager. He knows that his problems are caused by a chemical imbalance in his brain. As an adult, trained in the social sciences. He set out to investigate whether this was true – and he learned that almost everything we’re told about depression and anxiety is false.
Around the world, Hari has found social scientists are uncovering evidence that depression and anxiety are not caused by chemical imbalances in our brains. They are largely caused by major problems in the way we live today. Hari’s journey has taken him from a series of shocking experiments in Baltimore, to an Amish community in Indiana, to an uprising in Berlin.
When he discovered nine real causes of depression and anxiety, he led him to scientists, who were discovering seven very different solutions. An epic journey that will change the way we think about one of the greatest crises in our culture today.
Johann Hari goes to find out why we as a society more and more people suffer from depression or anxiety and as a result have to take prescription drugs.
The solution lies not in medicine, but in restoring our “lost connections”. Mostly if this feels realistic and reasonable. But an alarming amount of it seems convenient. He visited an obesity center and a woman immediately told him she had been raped and had been obese ever since as a defense mechanism. Another man told him something very similar. It’s all black and white, cause and effect, and a lot of the readings are like the worst of popular psychology.
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Lost Connections
- Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression – and the Unexpected Solutions
