Name: Lara Ximenes's review of Lost Connections by Johann Hari
Item: Lost Connections
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Author: Lara Ximenes

Johann Hari

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 Johann Hari. He was thirty-nine years old, and almost every year he had been alive, depression and anxiety had increased in Britain and across the Western world. Why? He had a very personal reason to ask this question. When he was a teenager, he had gone to his doctor and explained that he felt like pain was leaking out of him, and he couldn’t control it or understand it. Some of the solutions his doctor offered had given him some relief—but he remained in deep pain. So, as an adult, he went on a forty-thousand-mile journey across the world to interview the leading experts about what causes depression and anxiety, and what solves them. He learned there is scientific evidence for nine different causes of depression and anxiety—and that this knowledge leads to a very different set of solutions: ones that offer real hope.

Why You’re Depressed and How to Find Hope

Lost Connections

The New York Times bestseller from the author of Chasing the Scream, offering a radical 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. His TED talk, “Everything You Think You Know About Addiction Is Wrong,” has been viewed more than eight million times and revolutionized the global debate. This book will do the same.

Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression – and the Unexpected Solutions

Emily Marie

John I. Clark

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'A book that could actually make us happy' SIMON AMSTELL'This amazing book will change your life' ELTON JOHN'One of the most important texts of recent years' BRITISH JOURNAL OF GENERAL PRACTICE 'Brilliant, stimulating, radical' MATT HAIG'The more people read this book, the better off the world will be' NAOMI KLEIN 'Wonderful' HILLARY CLINTON'Eye-opening' GUARDIAN'Brilliant for anyone wanting a better understanding of mental health' ZOE BALL 'A game-changer' DAVINA MCCALL 'Extraordinary' DR MAX PEMBERTON'Beautiful' RUSSELL BRAND Depression and anxiety are now at epidemic levels. Why? Across the world, scientists have uncovered evidence for nine different causes. Some are in our biology, but most are in the way we are living today. Lost Connections offers a radical new way of thinking about this crisis. It shows that once we understand the real causes, we can begin to turn to pioneering new solutions - ones that offer real hope.

Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression - and the Unexpected Solutions

Lara Ximenes

“Here is a treatment that has very few side effects, is not expensive, doesn’t require a trained or licensed professional to prescribe it, and has pretty good evidence of efficacy so far.” But the research is very hard to find funding for, he said, because “a lot of the shape of modern biomedical research has been defined by the pharmaceutical industry,” and they’re not interested because ‘it’s very hard to commercialize nature contact.’ You can’t sell it, so they don’t want to know.”

هذا ليس كتاب علمي، اعتقد اننا يجب علينا التأكيد على هذة الحقيقة، لكنه كتاب جميل ومهم.

يحاول الكتاب البحث عن الاكتئاب في عصرنا الحالي، حجمه واسبابه والمعلومات الحقيقية والكاذبة عنه، باسلوب صحفي استقصائي وجهد كبير مبذول. 

يحاول الكاتب سرد وقائع تدعم اطروحاته ويقدم المقابلات ويحارب الاكاذيب، هل الاكتئاب مرض عضوي؟ هل هو مجرد خطأ في مستويات النواقل الكميائية بالمخ؟ هل من الممكن فصل الانسان عن عالمه وبيئته؟ 

ويحاول الكاتب عرض تجارب ونماذج لحلول غير تقليدية للتعامل مع الاكتئاب. 

Mohamed gamal

هذا ليس كتاب علمي، اعتقد اننا يجب علينا التأكيد على هذة الحقيقة، لكنه كتاب جميل ومهم.

يحاول الكتاب البحث عن الاكتئاب في عصرنا الحالي، حجمه واسبابه والمعلومات الحقيقية والكاذبة عنه، باسلوب صحفي استقصائي وجهد كبير مبذول. 

يحاول الكاتب سرد وقائع تدعم اطروحاته ويقدم المقابلات ويحارب الاكاذيب، هل الاكتئاب مرض عضوي؟ هل هو مجرد خطأ في مستويات النواقل الكميائية بالمخ؟ هل من الممكن فصل الانسان عن عالمه وبيئته؟ 

ويحاول الكاتب عرض تجارب ونماذج لحلول غير تقليدية للتعامل مع الاكتئاب. 

كتاب جميل استمتعت به 

Megan

Very insughtful book. Some chapters were pretty heavy and therefore I really took my time reading this one but I definitely recommend that if you or someone you know struggles with depression and/or anxiety that you read this!

Kelsi Proulx

I really enjoyed a lot of this book. The first half especially was really great. He put a lot of research into writing this. However, I didn't appreciate how he assumed his only audience is depressed or anxious people. He kept writing to them only like there are no other reasons to read his book. I get that that is his experience and why he's choosing to write this story but it rubbed me the wrong way.

Corey White

I want to give this to all of my depressed and anxious friends. I want to give it to my family so they might understand me just a little bit better if they open their mind to what the book is saying. 
An absolute favorite book.

Roos Havinga

Maybe it’s because I’ve done my fair share of research on this topic, but this didn’t book did not provide me with any new information on the topic. I also wasn’t expecting that Hari would relate the 9 sources of depression he describes to himself as much as he did. Maybe it was just my expectations that were off - I expected a book with a more detailed and scientific reasoning behind the sources Hari talks about and I got a very general overview and a personal narrative, but this wasn’t my favourite read of the year.

I still do recommend it if you want an introduction into the more sociological and psychological perspective on depression and anxiety - but if you’re already more literate on this topic, this one will bring nothing new for you.

Luke Brooker

I loved that this had a different take on depression that gave me insight on how to talk about it with others I know who have been affected by it.

Hooman Askari

This book saved my life, changed it for the better, for ever.

Seyfeddin Başsaraç

Paventhan

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 Johann Hari. He was thirty-nine years old, and almost every year he had been alive, depression and anxiety had increased in Britain and across the Western world. Why? He had a very personal reason to ask this question. When he was a teenager, he had gone to his doctor and explained that he felt like pain was leaking out of him, and he couldn't control it or understand it. Some of the solutions his doctor offered had given him some relief-but he remained in deep pain. So, as an adult, he went on a forty-thousand-mile journey across the world to interview the leading experts about what causes depression and anxiety, and what solves them. He learned there is scientific evidence for nine different causes of depression and anxiety-and that this knowledge leads to a very different set of solutions: ones that offer real hope.

Daksh

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 'A book that could actually make us happy' SIMON AMSTELL 'This amazing book will change your life' ELTON JOHN 'One of the most important texts of recent years' BRITISH JOURNAL OF GENERAL PRACTICE 'Brilliant, stimulating, radical' MATT HAIG 'The more people read this book, the better off the world will be' NAOMI KLEIN 'Wonderful' HILLARY CLINTON 'Eye-opening' GUARDIAN 'Brilliant for anyone wanting a better understanding of mental health' ZOE BALL 'A game-changer' DAVINA MCCALL 'Extraordinary' DR MAX PEMBERTON 'Beautiful' RUSSELL BRAND Depression and anxiety are now at epidemic levels. Why? Across the world, scientists have uncovered evidence for nine different causes. Some are in our biology, but most are in the way we are living today. Lost Connections offers a radical new way of thinking about this crisis. It shows that once we understand the real causes, we can begin to turn to pioneering new solutions – ones that offer real hope.

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