The New York Times
bestseller from the author of Chasing the Scream, offering a radical
new way of thinking about depression and anxiety.
There
was a mystery haunting award-winning investigative journalist Johann
Hari. 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. Why?
He
had a very personal reason to ask this question. 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. Some of the solutions his doctor offered had given him some
relief-but he remained in deep pain.
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. 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.