I Think the Challenge Is How We Get There From Here

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Ike: We used to have a set of overarching values that came from religion or family or our nation. A most of thus are goneand there're good things about that, but they're not being replaced. I don't think the place, i disagree with you, i don't think there's thereare too many people who are the profits. It's not about how much money you have. Ike: The biggest social changes for me can do nothing personally and it has a real effect on me when i feel down.

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.