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Lost Connections

: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression – and the Unexpected Solutions

The New York Times bestseller from the author of Chasing the Scream, offering a radical new way of thinking about depression and anxiety. There was a mystery haunting award-winning investigative journalist Joha

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“So instead of seeing your depression and anxiety as a form of madness, I would tell my younger self — you need to see the sanity in this sadness. You need to see that it makes sense.”

— Johann Hari, amazon.com

Tagged: Depression, real causes, Chemicals

“I kept noticing a self-help cliché that people say to each other all the time, and share on Facebook incessantly. We say to each other: “Nobody can help you except you.” It made me realize: we haven’t just started doing things alone more, in every decade since the 1930s. We have started to believe t…”

— Johann Hari, amazon.com

Tagged: How To Think, Depression, Anxiety, Connection, social isolation

“The Internet was born into a world where many people had already lost their sense of connection to each other. The collapse had already been taking place for decades by then. The web arrived offering them a kind of parody of what they were losing—Facebook friends in place of neighbors, video games i…”

— Johann Hari, amazon.com

Tagged: Anxiety, Depression, Internet, Connection