The journalist Johann Hari traveled around the world to find out why people are so depressed these days. He found evidence for nine causes of depression and anxiety, and he says he has some ideas for fixing them.
At a young age, the journalist Johann Hari was diagnosed with depression. Doctors said there was a chemical imbalance in his brain that drugs could fix. As an adult, he began to wonder if it wasn’t his brain that was off kilter. What if it had more to do with the way we live? So he traveled around the world, investigating these questions, and he found evidence for nine causes of depression and anxiety. Two of them are biological, but the others are cultural, and Hari has some ideas for fixing them.
Johann Hari's writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Guardian, and Politico, among many others. His TED Talk "Everything You Know About Addiction Is Wrong" has been viewed more than 10 million times. His new book is Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of–and the Unexpected Solutions [Indie bookstores|Amazon|Audible].
