Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression

From the New York Times bestselling creator of Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs, a radical better approach for contemplating sadness and anxiety.

What truly causes sorrow and nervousness – and in what capacity would we be able to truly settle them? Honor winning writer Johann Hari experienced gloom since he was a kid and began taking antidepressants when he was a youngster. He was informed that his issues were caused by a concoction lopsidedness in his mind. As a grown-up, prepared in the sociologies, he started to research whether this was genuine – and he discovered that nearly all that we have been told about melancholy and tension isn’t right.

Over the world, Hari discovered social researchers who were revealing proof that dejection and tension are not caused by a compound awkwardness in our brains. Truth be told, they are to a great extent caused by key issues with the way we live today. Hari’s excursion took him from an amazing arrangement of tests in Baltimore, to an Amish people group in Indiana, to an uprising in Berlin. When he had revealed nine genuine reasons for dejection and tension, they drove him to researchers who are finding seven altogether different arrangements – ones that work.

It is an epic excursion that will change how we consider one of the greatest emergencies in our way of life today. His TED talk – ‘All that You Think You Know About Addiction Is Wrong’ – has been seen more than 8 million times and upset the worldwide verbal confrontation. This book will do likewise.