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Johann Hari challenges the way we think about depression

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What's the Solution to the Depression Crisis?

Loneliness is one of the factors that helps us to understand why this crisis is growing, you knw. One of the heroes of my butlost connections is an amazing doctor in east ondon,. A poor part of east london, where i lived for a long time, called sam everington. He was really uncomfortable, cause he had loads of patients coming to him with terrible depression and anxiety. And like me, he's not opposed to cemical antula presents. But he could see two things. Firstly, his patients were depressed and anxious for perfectly understandable and acturally quite obvious reasons - loneliness. And secondly, most of the people he gave chemical antidepressence to got some

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