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Johann Hari challenges the way we think about depression

The TED Interview

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The Biggest Change You've Ever Had in Your Life

Yesman ber: I think if you live in a society that has genuinely been told there is no such thing as society, social explanations will seem weird. It's like speaking a language that no one talks. They'll seem counter intuitive. So i think partly what's gone on is has become a disjunction between individualistic narratives that have come to dominate our culture and the reality of our actual psychological needs. Just that make sense,. maybe i'm being exculpated from my own self-excuse for not doing this right now? That makes me feel better about myself. Yesman ber: And yet, all those years i was depressed, i had studied social sciences, right?

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