Once upon a time –
March 1, 2019 – British journalist and author Johann Hari investigated this question in his best-selling book Lost Connections. He believes that cultural disconnect is to blame for a pervasive drift toward depression in the West. Hari writes that we’ve become overly reliant on a biological explanation of the causes of depression—that depression is primarily a brain imbalance people are born with … As a result, he considers, many are left with an incomplete story about their distress.
