Lost Connections
Why You're Depressed and How to Find Hope
Bloomsbury · Print & ebook · December 3, 2019
The New York Times bestseller from the author of Chasing the Scream, offering a radical new way of thinking about depression and anxiety.
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- Who it’s for
- A personal, investigative look at depression, anxiety, and possible causes.
- Genres
- Depression, Anxiety & Phobias, Social Psychology
- Published
- Bloomsbury, December 3, 2019
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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.
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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.
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A personal, investigative look at depression, anxiety, and possible causes.
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- A personal search for answers about depression and anxiety
- Expert interviews alongside lived experience
Expect
- A wide-ranging inquiry into causes and possible solutions
- A serious, hopeful perspective
Where it sits
| Anxiety & Phobias | 71% |
|---|---|
| Depression | 66% |
| Social Psychology | 21% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Personal Memoirs
- Mental Health
- Living with Depression
- Authors
- Johann Hari, Audible Studios
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury
- Published
- December 3, 2019
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Personal Memoirs