Someone asked me once had I read anything that changed my life. Well, this is it. I have to tell you about this book I’m listening to. It’s not a book I intentionally went looking for. Infact, my husband found it by accident and so therefor takes credit when I excitedly tell him something new I have learnt that I find relates to us.
I started reading or in this case, listening, because I wanted to confirm what I knew all long for me and my family at least. I wanted clarification that I wasn’t crazy for wanting to fix with what I thought was the cause of my anxiety in such a simple way.
This book talks about the causes and depression and anxiety, it turns everything I thought on its head. It has me questioning, and yet agreeing all the way through. He writes with a great balance of research, self-reflection and best of all lots of questions about mental health- that I would have asked myself.
This is not my normal read, but if you have struggled with anxiety and depression can I encourage you to give it a go?
I can almost say and this is a big call for me, but it’s been thought and life changing for me.
Lost Connections. Its a big read but I’m devouring it via audible on the way to work.
It is available on Audible and Amazon but this is the audible link. I am such a lover of Audible now!!
Below is the blurb.
From the New York Times best-selling author of Chasing the Scream, a radically new way of thinking about depression and anxiety.
What really causes depression and anxiety – and how can we really solve them? Award-winning journalist Johann Hari suffered from depression since he was a child and started taking antidepressants when he was a teenager. He was told that his problems were caused by a chemical imbalance in his brain. As an adult, trained in the social sciences, he began to investigate whether this was true – and he learned that almost everything we have been told about depression and anxiety is wrong.
Across the world, Hari found social scientists who were uncovering evidence that depression and anxiety are not caused by a chemical imbalance in our brains. In fact, they are largely caused by key problems with the way we live today. Hari’s journey took him from a mind-blowing series of experiments in Baltimore, to an Amish community in Indiana, to an uprising in Berlin.
Once he had uncovered nine real causes of depression and anxiety, they led him to scientists who are discovering seven very different solutions – ones that work. It is an epic journey that will change how we think about one of the biggest crises in our culture today.
