From the New York Times best-selling author of Chasing the Scream, a
radically new way of thinking about depression and anxiety.
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 antidepressants when he was a
teenager. He was told that his problems were caused by a chemical
imbalance in his brain. 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.
Across the world, Hari found social scientists who were uncovering
evidence that depression and anxiety are not caused by a chemical
imbalance in our brains. In fact, they are largely caused by key
problems with the way we live today. 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.
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. It is an epic journey that will change how
we think about one of the biggest crises in our culture today.
