Non-Pharmaceutical Anti-Depressants and Environmental Causes of Depression: Johann Hari’s Lost Connections

Updated Dec. 2023: Johann Hari’s book Lost Connections: Why You’re Depressed and How to Find Hope, is one of the very best things I’ve read in recent years. It’s one of those unusual gems you find, … Lost Connections fascinates in part because its central topic is several specific, environmental causes of depression, as well as corresponding remedies. Continue reading Non-Pharmaceutical Anti-Depressants and Environmental Causes of Depression: Johann Hari’s Lost Connections

The Idea of a Non-Pharmaceutical Anti-Depressant

The idea of a non-pharmaceutical anti-depressant might be the single most important thing in Johann Hari’s amazing and fairly recent book: Lost Connections. It radically reframes the entire dominant way of thinking about the treatment and prevention of depression, and does this by radically expanding, in a hopeful, realistic, and evidence-based manner, the way we’ve come to assume depression will be treated. Continue reading The Idea of a Non-Pharmaceutical Anti-Depressant