Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression – and the Unexpected Solutions

by Johann Hari

In rural Spain, depression was extremely low—because there was a strong community protecting people, and few traumatic experiences.

After that moment watching his friend die, he made himself a promise. He wasn’t going to sleepwalk through life. He was going to live fully.

You stop hearing the airplanes and the traffic, and you get a sense of just how tiny we are, our insignificance.”

You close your eyes and picture yourself. You imagine something good happening to you—falling in love, or writing something you’re proud of. You feel the joy that would come from that. You let it flow through you.

Depression and anxiety have three kinds of causes—biological, psychological, and social.