Hari does not just complain about the way we have been taught to view depression and its treatments he also includes a lot of hard data from a variety of researchers that can help us. “Feeling lonely, it turned out, caused your cortisol level to absolutely soar-as much as some of the most disturbing things that can ever happen to you” (p. He was measuring how stressful loneliness was and how much cortisol was in each person’s saliva sample. On the second day, they did the same and also spit into a tube, sealed it, and kept it to hand in to the lab. They wore a cardiovascular monitor to measure their heart rates. One story he tells is of John Cacioppo’s early study in the mid 1970s in which people were asked to rate themselves on loneliness 9 times a day in response to a beeper.
Rather than depression being caused by an imbalance of hormones in our brain, it is mainly the loss of social connections in our lives that causes neuro-chemical imbalances that lead to depression and anxiety, which have nevertheless created the multi-billion-dollar pharmaceutical industry. It is, I discovered, largely in the world, and the way we are living in it” (p. But that won’t work unless you get rid of the causes of the depressed feelings in your life.In his introduction, he says: “We have been systematically misinformed about what depression and anxiety are…The primary cause of all this rising depression and anxiety is not in our heads.
You will try to get rid of the depressed feelings in your head. You will become sealed off in a serotonin story.
Because you are being told depression and anxiety are misfirings of brain chemicals, you will stop looking for answers in your life and your psyche and your environment and how you might change them. It’s not the place to look for the main explanation or the main solution.īecause you have been given the wrong explanation for why your depression and anxiety are happening, you are seeking the wrong solution. Your biology can make your distress worse, for sure. Much more than you’ve been told up to now, it’s not serotonin it’s society. You are suffering from a social and spiritual imbalance in how we live. You are not suffering from a chemical imbalance in your brain.
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