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Outlines arguments against common misperceptions about depression and anxiety, drawing on the work of social scientists who believe that the disorders are less related to brain chemical imbalances than to stressful factors in how people live today.

 

The best-selling author of Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs outlines revelatory arguments against common misperceptions about depression and anxiety, drawing on the work of social scientists who believe that the disorders are less related to brain chemical imbalances than to stressful factors in how people live today.

The New York Times bestseller from the author of Chasing the Scream, offering a radical new way of thinking about depression and anxiety.

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 reliefâ€"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 anxietyâ€"and that this knowledge leads to a very different set of solutions: ones that offer real hope.

 

Table of Contents

Prologue: The Apple 1 (4)

Introduction: A Mystery 5 (12)

Part I The Crack in the Old Story

 

1 The Wand

17 (10)

2 Imbalance

27 (11)

3 The Grief Exception

38 (7)

4 The First Flag on the Moon

45 (14)

Part II Disconnection: Nine Causes of Depression and Anxiety

 

5 Picking Up the Flag (An Introduction to Part Two)

59 (2)

6 Cause One: Disconnection from Meaningful Work

61 (11)

7 Cause Two: Disconnection from Other People

72 (19)

8 Cause Three: Disconnection from Meaningful Values

91 (15)

9 Cause Four: Disconnection from Childhood Trauma

106 (10)

10 Cause Five: Disconnection from Status and Respect

116 (7)

11 Cause Six: Disconnection from the Natural World

123 (9)

12 Cause Seven: Disconnection from a Hopeful or Secure Future

132 (11)

13 Causes Eight and Nine: The Real Role of Genes and Brain Changes

143 (16)

Part III Reconnection. Or, a Different Kind of Antidepressant

 

14 The Cow

159 (5)

15 We Built This City

164 (15)

16 Reconnection One: To Other People

179 (10)

17 Reconnection Two: Social Prescribing

189 (12)

18 Reconnection Three: To Meaningful Work

201 (10)

19 Reconnection Four: To Meaningful Values

211 (7)

20 Reconnection Five: Sympathetic Joy, and Overcoming Addiction to the Self

218 (23)

21 Reconnection Six: Acknowledging and Overcoming Childhood Trauma

241 (4)

22 Reconnection Seven: Restoring the Future

245 (10)

Conclusion: Homecoming 255 (10)

Acknowledgments 265 (4)

Notes 269 (36)

Index 305