"Lost Connections" is a book about depression as a clinical condition that has reached epidemic proportions. Its writing is motivated by the personal suffering of the author, an award-winning journalist who has been suffering from depression for more than a decade and has been unsuccessfully treated with antidepressants. At one point, Johan Harry decided to take his health and well-being into his own hands. Conducted over 200 interviews worldwide with some of the most influential scientists of our time. Talks with psychologists, psychiatrists and neurologists; he reads scientific publications, meets with patients who have reached the very bottom of this mental disorder, as well as with people who managed to push away from it. So it proves that almost everything we've been told about depression and anxiety is wrong.
Understands that depression is actually an inevitable reaction to certain internal and external factors. By changing certain attitudes and behaviors, we can satisfy our frustrated needs and thus overcome depression without medication. In his book, Johan Hari not only reveals the causes of depression and anxiety, but also offers various solutions to overcome them. They have only one thing in common: they really help.
I embarked on a journey of almost 65,000 kilometers. I ended up in places I never thought I'd go—an Amish village in Indiana, a riotous Berlin neighborhood, a Brazilian city where advertising is banned, a lab in Baltimore where people were returning to their traumas. in an unexpected way. What I learned made me completely revise my narrative—both for myself and for the scourge that covers our entire culture like a black stain.21
