Lost Connections challenges the biological narrative on depression — that it’s solely brain chemistry — and explores societal causes. In the United States, if you tried to make yourself happier, you don’t become happier. And in Russia and Japan and Taiwan, if you tried to make yourself happier, you do become happier. In the book, you cite research that feeling acutely lonely can cause as much stress as being punched by a stranger. If that’s how you’re spending most of your waking life, that internal deadening will carry over into the rest of your life.

Source: thestar May 23, 2019 10:01 UTC