Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression - and the Unexpected Solutions

Overview

From the New York Times bestselling author of Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs, a startli
ng challenge to our thinking about depression and anxiety.

Personal Struggle

• Johann Hari suffered from depression since childhood and started taking antidepressants as a teenager.
• He was told—along with his entire generation—that his problem was caused by a chemical imbalance in his brain.
• As an adult trained in the social sciences, he set out to investigate this claim.

Rethinking Depression and Anxiety

• Hari discovered that almost everything we have been told about these conditions is wrong.
• The real causes are mostly not in our brains, but in the way we live today.

Global Journey

Hari’s research led him to:

• The people living in the tunnels beneath Las Vegas
• An Amish community in Indiana
• An uprising in Berlin

Each setting provides vivid, dramatic insights that point to solutions radically different from the ones we’ve been offere
d so far.

A New Debate

Just as Chasing the Scream transformed the global conversation about addiction—with over twenty million views for his TE
D talk and its animation—Lost Connections will ignite a very different debate about depression and anxiety, showing how,
together, we can end this epidemic.