Grief Is Not My Thing

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Our culture, for some reason, has encouraged people to believe that grief is abnormal. And i find that deeply shocking and unhelpful. Youre you're free to deal with the challenge to life as you see fit. Often i'm paying for it in the form of subsidies through health care and government. Butu let's put that sjus just for a moment. The point i wont emphasize o an we haven't really touched on, is ic, extremely important,. It's our seay from what we've been talking about to this more optimistic story.

Author and journalist Johann Hari talks about his book, Lost Connections: Why You Are Depressed and How to Find Hope, with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Hari, who has suffered with depression as a teenager and an adult, offers a sweeping critique of the medical establishment's understanding of depression and the frequent reliance on pharmaceutical treatments. Hari argues that it is our lost connections with each other, with our work, and with ourselves that explains the rise in depression in recent times.