Through exploring the complex nature of depression, he discovered one very simple deficiency in our society-connection. That’s what Johann Hari aimed to do with this book. To find them, first we need to understand the problem better. We need other solutions, medication alone shouldn’t be the only solution that we provide. It isn’t just a chemical imbalance because if it was then the chemicals would have a bigger impact. So basically, the belief in the story that you’re getting better has a bigger impact than the chemicals in the drug.Īnother statistic that shocked me was that the proportion of people on antidepressants who continue to be depressed is found to be between 65 and 80 percent.įrom this, we can safely say that biology isn’t the only thing causing depression. The placebo effect relies on belief in the story that you’re going to get better, and that actually provides the same physical results as the chemical treatment. A further 25% came down to natural recovery and a whopping 50% of recovery was due to the placebo effect.

It showed that only 25% of the recovery could be put down to the chemicals themselves, and their reaction on the brain. A study was done on people recovering from depression. Okay so I was pretty shocked when I read this. how our socially isolated society is causing depression,.

why antidepressants can’t be our only solution to depression,.Johann Hari wrote Lost Connections with these exact intentions-to understand his mental health better and share his discoveries with the world. I’ve seen it very often in my GP placements and seeing how much it affects people has made me want to understand it better. Around 280 million people around the world suffer from depression.

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