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Lost Connections: Why You're Depressed and How to Find Hope
by Johann Hari
I want to start this review with this beautiful quote, “It’s not serotonin, it’s society, it’s not your brain, it’s your pain”.
I can’t tell you how much this book has affirmed my long standing belief that medications are not the only solution to depression. Johann explains with multitudes of evidence and by interviewing some people who have defied the constraints of what society expects of us, that depression is a societal problem and a natural response to essential psychological needs being unmet. Not only does he back up his knowledge with research and rich personal experiences both from his own life and his time meeting people as part of his own research for this book but he also provides examples of what you can do to address these unmet needs.
As someone who has had mental health difficulties and still has them at times, and who works in the mental health care system, this book was eye opening for me. I was blind to this aspect of depression even though it was obvious that more and more people are getting severely depressed. Even though it was so obvious that these problems exist, it didn’t really sink in to me until I read this book. This has given me a lot of food for thought and I truly can’t wait to provide a new sense of empathy in my work with people with depression and anxiety. Don’t get me wrong I do feel there is some benefit to antidepressants for relief of symptoms short term in people experiencing acute distress, but I feel like this book has given me a few tools for my tool-belt both personally and professionally.
Please read this book if you have been depressed for a long time or are close to someone that is.
I can’t tell you how much this book has affirmed my long standing belief that medications are not the only solution to depression. Johann explains with multitudes of evidence and by interviewing some people who have defied the constraints of what society expects of us, that depression is a societal problem and a natural response to essential psychological needs being unmet. Not only does he back up his knowledge with research and rich personal experiences both from his own life and his time meeting people as part of his own research for this book but he also provides examples of what you can do to address these unmet needs.
As someone who has had mental health difficulties and still has them at times, and who works in the mental health care system, this book was eye opening for me. I was blind to this aspect of depression even though it was obvious that more and more people are getting severely depressed. Even though it was so obvious that these problems exist, it didn’t really sink in to me until I read this book. This has given me a lot of food for thought and I truly can’t wait to provide a new sense of empathy in my work with people with depression and anxiety. Don’t get me wrong I do feel there is some benefit to antidepressants for relief of symptoms short term in people experiencing acute distress, but I feel like this book has given me a few tools for my tool-belt both personally and professionally.
Please read this book if you have been depressed for a long time or are close to someone that is.