He learned there is scientific evidence for nine different causes of depression and anxiety-and that this knowledge leads to a very different set of solutions: ones that offer real hope. So, as an adult, he went on a forty-thousand-mile journey across the world to interview the leading experts about what causes depression and anxiety, and what solves them. Some of the solutions his doctor offered had given him some relief-but he remained in deep pain. When he was a teenager, he had gone to his doctor and explained that he felt like pain was leaking out of him, and he couldn't control it or understand it. It’s an unhelpful text, which is highly annoying to read if you’re someone who has a background in psychology if I’d been marking it as a submitted paper, I’d probably fail it. He had a very personal reason to ask this question. It’s badly-evidenced, largely inapplicable for the people who need societal interventions the most, and is nowhere near as groundbreaking as it thinks it is. He was thirty-nine years old, and almost every year he had been alive, depression and anxiety had increased in Britain and across the Western world. As he wondered why, he began to question the assumptions that we have made in the past hundred years as to what the causes of depression are, and what. His own diagnosis of clinical depression led him to taking antidepressants for years, yet he never seemed to truly recover. There was a mystery haunting award-winning investigative journalist Johann Hari. In 'Lost Connections' Johann Hari looks at depression from the inside. The New York Times bestseller from the author of Chasing the Scream, offering a radical new way of thinking about depression and anxiety.
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