ekon talk is a weekly conversations for the curious. Today's guest is journalist and author johann harry. The subject of to day's conversation is lost connections, why you're depressed and how to find hope. i would remind listeners, this is not a medical programme. We're not giving medical advice. Take everything you hear here with a grain of at least one, maybe more than one grain of salt. Are welcome te bat on these questions.
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.