Is There an Increase in Loneliness in the West?

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The book's called lost connections. The source of a lot of depression is the fact that we have and the rise over time of depression in the worldspeal n the west, is an increase in aloneness. People spend more time by themselves than they used to. So there's bueness. What is life like if you have nobody to turn to when things go wrong? You know, em adam toing, top professor, cassio po a him sayng to me, why do we exist? One key reason is that our lesion.

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.