His work has also appeared in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The New Republic, The Nation, Le Monde, El Mundo, the Melbourne Age, El Pais, the Sydney Morning Herald, the Irish Times, The Guardian, Ha'aretz, the Times Literary Supplement, Attitude (Britain's main gay magazine), the New Statesman and a wide range of other international newspapers and magazines. He was a columnist for The Independent and the Huffington Post, and has won awards for his war reporting. Johann Hari is an award-winning British journalist and playwright. Just as Chasing the Scream transformed the global debate about addiction, with over twenty million views for his TED talk and the animation based on it, Lost Connections will lead us to a very different debate about depression and anxiety-one that shows how, together, we can end this epidemic. They lead to solutions radically different from the ones we have been offered up until now.

Hari’s journey took him from the people living in the tunnels beneath Las Vegas, to an Amish community in Indiana, to an uprising in Berlin-all showing in vivid and dramatic detail these new insights.

As an adult, trained in the social sciences, he began to investigate this question-and he learned that almost everything we have been told about depression and anxiety is wrong.Īcross the world, Hari discovered social scientists who were uncovering the real causes-and they are mostly not in our brains, but in the way we live today. He was told-like his entire generation-that his problem was caused by a chemical imbalance in his brain. From the New York Times bestselling author of Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs, a startling challenge to our thinking about depression and anxiety.Īward-winning journalist Johann Hari suffered from depression since he was a child and started taking antidepressants when he was a teenager.

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