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Lost Connections
Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression – and the Unexpected Solutions
Lost Connections
Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression – and the Unexpected Solutions
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Description
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 anti-depressants 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 their real causes – and they are mostly not in our brains, but in the way we live today. Hari´s journey took him from a life-threatening experience in Vietnam, to an Amish community in Indiana, to an uprising in Berlin – all showing in vivid and dramatic detail these new insights. They lead to radically different solutions to the ones we have been offered up to now.
Just as Chasing The Scream transformed the global debate about addiction, The Lost Connections will lead us to a very different debate about depression and anxiety – one that shows how, together, we can end this epidemic.
Product details
| Published | 01 Feb 2018 |
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| Format | Paperback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 336 |
| ISBN | 9781408878699 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Dimensions | 234 x 153 mm |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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Reviews
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If you have ever been down, or felt lost, this amazing book will change your life. Do yourself a favour – read it now
Elton John
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A brilliant, stimulating, radical take on mental health
Matt Haig
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A wonderful and incisive analysis
Hillary Clinton
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The more people read this book, the better off the world will be
Naomi Klein
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This book is a game changer
Davina McCall
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This is a bold and inspiring book that will help far more than just those who suffer from depression. As Hari shows, we all have within us the potential to live in ways that are healthier and wiser
Arianna Huffington






















