leafyshivers 's review for:

Lost Connections: Why You're Depressed and How to Find Hope by Johann Hari

4.0

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I was surprised and rather delighted to find this book much more radical than I expected it to be. From talking about how consumerism saps purpose from our lives; to 'of COURSE we're depressed when capitalist society increasingly denies us any sense of stability (never mind fulfilment) in our working lives'; to describing worker co-ops and community organizing (against landlords!) and universal basic income as proven solutions for depression - let me just say I immensely enjoyed this book, and learned some things from it that before I had perhaps only intuited, from being both a leftie and chronically depressed. I would wholeheartedly recommend this book to anyone ready to explore a different view of what contributes to, and can help to heal, the truly very reasonable responses to modern society that anxiety and depression represent.

(Also, totally making myself late for work while writing this review. Oops.)