In 2011 it emerged that he had been using quotes from his interviewees’ books, and from previous press interviews, as if they had been given to him. It’s no surprise that Hari is meticulous in revealing his methods, given his past misdemeanours while working at the Independent. It wasn’t until he was in his 30s that he thought of all the questions the doctor didn’t ask, such as: what was his life like? What was making him sad? What changes could be made to make life more tolerable? The push and pull between “reactive” depression (the kind that relates to our environment and life experience) and “endogenous” depression (where something goes wrong in the brain) forms the basis of Lost Connections, an eye-opening, highly detailed though sometimes frustrating investigation into the causes and cures of depression. As Hari swallowed his first tablet, he says, “it felt like a chemical kiss”. And so he prescribed some pills that would restore the balance. “Get over it,” it would say, “stop being so weak.” The doctor was reassuring, explaining that these feelings were to be expected since Hari was one of many people whose brain had depleted levels of serotonin. When he wasn’t taking himself off to cry quietly, an anxious monologue would be running in his head. That morning he had visited a doctor and explained how, ever since he was small, he had battled with feelings of overwhelming sadness. Design by Greg Heinimann.W hen Johann Hari was 18 he took his first antidepressant. Once he had uncovered nine real causes of depression and anxiety, they led him to scientists who are discovering seven very different solutions - ones that work. Hari´s journey took him from a mind-blowing series of experiments in Baltimore, to an Amish community in Indiana, to an uprising in Berlin. In fact, they are largely caused by key problems with the way we live today. As an adult, trained in the social sciences, he began to investigate whether this was true - and he learned that almost everything we have been told about depression and anxiety is wrong.Īcross the world, Hari found social scientists who were uncovering evidence that depression and anxiety are not caused by a chemical imbalance in our brains. He was told that his problems were caused by a chemical imbalance in his brain. What really causes depression and anxiety - and how can we really solve them? Award-winning journalist Johann Hari suffered from depression since he was a child and started taking anti-depressants when he was a teenager. Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression - and the unexpected solutions.
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