Hey, everyone, welcome to from the kitchen table.

I'm your host, Sean Duffy, along with my co-host for the podcast, but also my partner in life, Rachel Campos Duffy.

Thank you, Sean.

Hello, everyone.

And we're back with conversations from our kitchen table.

And today we're bringing you someone really special.

He's a journalist.

He's an author of a new book called Stolen Focus, Why You Can't Pay Attention.

He also wrote The New York Times Best Sller, a book I read and loved, Lost

Connections, Why You're Depressed and How to Find Hope. Both great books. I encourage everyone to get

them. I think they're very much interconnected. And we'll talk about that a little bit on the show.

Everyone, please welcome, Johan, Hary, to the kitchen table. Johan, thank you for joining us.

I'm so happy to be with you guys. Hi, Sean. Hi, Rachel. Great to have you, Johan. Thanks for being here.

Hooray. Johan, I almost don't even know where to begin with you because I find you so imminently

fascinating. And I think that you've really touched on some topics that for some reason we're all moving so quickly in life that we almost forget.

And we think about it, but we're not articulating what we see is happening in our culture.

And one of them is depression and anxiety.

And you point out that more young people in particular feel like they're anxious and depressed

more than any other time, at least that we know of, more now than ever.

I certainly, as a mom of nine and a mother who sees my own kids and their friends,

I'm shocked at how many kids say they're anxious,

depressed, ADHD, whatever it is, these things that we never heard of when we were young,

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