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Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression - and the Unexpected Solutions

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  • Jan 11, 2018
  • #Mentalhealth #Psychology
Johann Hari
@johannhari101
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs, a startling challenge to our thinking about depression and anxiety. A... Show More

From the New York Times bestselling author of Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs, a startling challenge to our thinking about depression and anxiety.

Award-winning journalist Johann Hari suffered from depression since he was a child and started taking antidepressants when he was a teenager. He was told—like his entire generation—that his problem was caused by a chemical imbalance in his brain. As an adult, trained in the social sciences, he began to investigate this question—and he learned that almost everything we have been told about depression and anxiety is wrong.

Across the world, Hari discovered social scientists who were uncovering the real causes—and they are mostly not in our brains, but in the way we live today. Hari’s journey took him from the people living in the tunnels beneath Las Vegas, to an Amish community in Indiana, to an uprising in Berlin—all showing in vivid and dramatic detail these new insights. They lead to solutions radically different from the ones we have been offered up until now.

Just as Chasing the Scream transformed the global debate about addiction, with over twenty million views for his TED talk and the animation based on it, Lost Connections will lead us to a very different debate about depression and anxiety—one that shows how, together, we can end this epidemic.

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Number of Pages: 322

ISBN: 163286830X

ISBN-13: 9781632868305

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Chris Williamson @ChrisWilliamson · Aug 17, 2021
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This book changed how I saw the world and interact with other people.
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I’ll give your two: 1) Lost Connections by @johannhari101 2) Pathless Path by at @p_millerd The first changed my view of others, the doorway to empathy flung open. The second changed my view on myself. I felt validated for the first time in so many major life decisions.
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