#172 - Johann Hari - What Are The Real Causes Of Depression?

Modern Wisdom

Chris Williamson

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2020

⏱️ 113 minutes

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Summary

Johann Hari is a writer & a journalist.

Rates of depression are at an all time high and yet pharmaceutical drugs have never been more widely used. If depression is simply an imbalance of chemicals in the brain - what's going on?

Johann is my favourite writer on depression and this episode has been 2 years in the making. Expect to learn what are the true causes of depression, how reality TV degrades society's values, how you can take back control of your mood, why I lowkey fancy Dame Judy Dench and much more...

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0:00.0	Oh yes, hello friends, welcome back to Modern Wisdom.
0:05.8	Before I get onto today's guest, I wanted to give a huge thank you to everyone that
0:10.0	supported the show.
0:11.4	The last couple of weeks has been insane for plays and we landed in the top 40 on Apple
0:17.9	podcasts, which is just ridiculous.
0:21.2	Oprah is now officially eating my dust.
0:25.2	So yeah, take that.
0:28.1	It's all because of the support that the show is getting and obviously the quality of
0:31.4	my fantastic guests.
0:33.2	So thank you.
0:34.6	I really appreciate it.
0:36.0	All the messages, all the tags, all the shares, everything is, it's so good.
0:40.5	It really, really does make me so happy.
0:43.4	I adore this project.
0:44.7	I love getting to speak to these people and the fact that you are along for the ride makes
0:50.5	it all the more sweet onto today's guest.
0:54.1	I am joined by Johann Harry, author of Lost Connections and Chasing the Scream.
1:00.3	I have been trying to get Johann on this podcast for more than two years now, but as he can
1:06.4	attest, I am incredibly persistent, which is why I had to probably make a good serial killer.
1:12.8	But yeah, I probably, is that the sort of thing you should say that you'd be a good serial
1:16.0	killer?
1:17.0	That's not a legal is it?
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