A review by fletchersmum
Lost Connections: Why You're Depressed and How to Find Hope by Johann Hari

5.0

Maybe I liked thus book because it fits with my already held views on the subject. I’ll admit that not much was new in here as I work in healthcare and have read widely on most of the topics he covers. Having said that, I loved this book. I don’t agree with other reviewers who’ve criticised the author’s position on anti-depressants because he is clear that medications can have a role to play in the treatment of mental health. Though he does question the role of big pharma in the explosion of anti-depressant prescribing in spite of fairly mediocre effectiveness demonstrated by clinics studies, he is not completely dismissing medication as part of mental health treatment. Rather, he is asking logical and undeniably relevant questions as to why we are where we are with an explosion in depression and anxiety conditions across western societies, what it’s costing our societies not to acknowledge and address the underlying drivers, and what can possibly be done about it.