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What are the 9 causes of Depression
This book will take you on a journey to some deeply entrenched crevices, the thin ice of deception and some high mountain ledges as it breaks up the solid ground the medical model has been standing on, exposing the quicksand of ‘quick-fixes’ and giving you peaks at new vistas and possibilities. This journey will excite you and scare you and challenge you to rethink your beliefs about depression and anxiety.
In his book, Johann Hari states that “loneliness is a product of the way we live.” Later he demonstrates us through stories and research on how those living in the modern westernized world are largely disconnected from other people, meaningful work, meaningful values, our childhood traumas, status and respect, the natural world and disconnected from a hopeful and secure future. He also acknowledges that some depression and anxiety have biological causes.
Hari further shows how the symptoms of grief and depression are nearly identical and postulates that people are depressed because they are grieving the lost connections that all humans need to be happy, fulfilled and mentally healthy. He blames the culture that we have collectively created, not the individual sufferer, for this widespread disconnection and the resulting rampant depression and anxiety we see today.
In his book, he proposes several ideas for collectively changing the way we live and reconnecting in many of these important areas.
He shares his own journey of depression and anxiety and how he grappled with and resisted coming to terms with the fact that the story he was sold as a teen about his “broken brain” wasn’t true.
Johann begins with a story of a life-threatening physical illness that he experienced in a remote foreign land. He recounts how he was begging for medication and the doctor told him, “you need your nausea” and it turned out that his nausea and the accompanying pain saved his life.
He concludes his well-researched and well-written book by saying, “You need your nausea. You need your pain. You need to listen to the message. All these depressed and anxious people all over the world – they are giving us a message. They are telling us that something has gone wrong in the way we live. We need to stop trying to muffle, silence or pathologize this pain. Instead, we need to listen to it, honour it. It is only when we listen to our pain that we can follow it back to its source – and only there, where we can see its true cause, we can begin to overcome it gradually with full positive approach to lead a happy life.”
Disconnection from:
- Abuse. Physical, sexual, or emotional abuse can make you more vulnerable to depression later in life.
- Age. People who are elderly are at higher risk of depression.
- Certain medications.
- Conflict.
- Death or a loss.
- Gender.
- Genes.
- Major events.
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