THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Chasing the Scream a radically new way of thinking about depression & anxiety What really causes depression & anxiety
- & how can we really solve them? Award-winning journalist Johann Hari suffered from depression since he was a child & started taking anti-depressants 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
- & he learned that almost everything we have been told about depression & anxiety is wrong Across the world Hari found social scientists who were uncovering evidence that depression & 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 & 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 8 million times & revolutionized the global debate This book will do the same