Award-winning journalist Johann Hari suffered from depression since he was a child and started taking antidepressants when he was a teenager. He was told - like his entire generation - that his problem was caused by a chemical imbalance in his brain. As an adult, trained in the social sciences, he began to investigate this question - and he learned that almost everything we have been told about depression and anxiety is wrong.
Across the world, Hari discovered social scientists who were uncovering the real causes - and they are mostly not in our brains, but in the way we live today. Hari’s journey took him from the people living in the tunnels beneath Las Vegas, to an Amish community in Indiana, to an uprising in Berlin - all showing in vivid and dramatic detail these new insights. They lead to solutions radically different from the ones we have been offered up until now.
