“One of the world's most important and most enlightening thinkers and social critics.” - Glenn Greenwald, winner of the Pulitzer Prize “This is one of those extraordinary books that you want all your friends to read immediately-because the shift in world-view is so compelling and dramatic that you wonder how you'll be able to have conversations with them otherwise.” - Brian Eno It is a brave, moving, brilliant, simple and earth-shattering book that must be read by everyone and anyone who is longing for a life of meaning and connection.” - Eve Ensler, author of THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES “Through a breath-taking journey across the world, Johann Hari exposes us to extraordinary people and concepts that will change the way we see depression forever.

As Hari shows, we all have within us the potential to live in ways that are healthier and wiser.” - Arianna Huffington “This is a bold and inspiring book that will help far more than just those who suffer from depression. I am utterly convinced that the more people read this book, the better off the world will be.” - Naomi Klein “Wise, probing, and deeply generous Hari has produced a book packed with explosive revelations about our epidemic of despair. Do yourself a favour-read it now.” - Elton John “If you have ever been down, or felt lost, this amazing book will change your life. “ Lost Connections offers a wonderful and incisive analysis of the depression and alienation that are haunting American society.” - Hillary Rodham Clinton

He learned there is scientific evidence for nine different causes of depression and anxiety-and that this knowledge leads to a very different set of solutions: ones that offer real hope. So, as an adult, he went on a forty-thousand-mile journey across the world to interview the leading experts about what causes depression and anxiety, and what solves them. Some of the solutions his doctor offered had given him some relief-but he remained in deep pain. When he was a teenager, he had gone to his doctor and explained that he felt like pain was leaking out of him, and he couldn't control it or understand it.

He had a very personal reason to ask this question. He was thirty-nine years old, and almost every year he had been alive, depression and anxiety had increased in Britain and across the Western world. There was a mystery haunting award-winning investigative journalist Johann Hari. The New York Times bestseller from the author of Chasing the Scream, offering a radical new way of thinking about depression and anxiety.

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