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The Marianne Williamson Podcast

S1 / E25 Spirituality & Depression: A Conversation with author Johann Hari

The Marianne Williamson Podcast

Marianne Williamson

News, Religion & Spirituality

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2021

⏱️ 113 minutes

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Summary

With rates of depression and anxiety rising — skyrocketing during the pandemic — we're all looking for a quick fix.But a quick fix doesn't get to the root of the problem as author Johann Hari details in his book, "Lost Connections: Why You're Depressed and How to Find Hope." 

Suffering from depression for most of his life, Hari set out to study why so many are struggling and what he came up with, his 9 causes of depression, is spot-on. 

This is a topic that's close to my heart - something I've spoken and written about for years and I couldn't be happier to have this discussion with Johann. We talk about our struggles with depression, habits you can build to lessen the severity when the sadness strikes and how society and government contributes to people's despair.

Johann Hari's Website: https://johannhari.com/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/johannhari
Instagram: https://instagram.com/johann.hari

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JohannHari.Page

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0:00.9

People's psyches have been poisoned.

0:04.0

They've been fed a kind of KFC for the soul.

0:07.0

They've been taught that life is about things.

0:09.6

They've been taught to seek happiness

0:11.9

in places that can never deliver them happiness.

0:15.0

And they've been taught to neglect

0:16.7

or even to despise the things that would in fact

0:19.7

bring them happiness, satisfaction and meaning.

0:23.4

But the good thing for us, and this might sound like

0:26.0

an odd thing to say, and I don't want to sound like

0:28.3

trivializing the pain which I have felt

0:30.0

and is a dreadful agonizing pain.

0:32.8

The fact that the crisis is so bad

0:35.4

that so many people are depressed

0:36.9

that so many people are addicted

0:38.8

is in one sense positive because it shows

0:42.8

it's very hard to ignore the alarm

0:45.7

when it's sounding from every building and every vehicle.

0:49.2

Hi everybody, Mary and Williams in here.

0:51.2

Thank you for joining me.

0:52.7

We have something very important to talk about today,

0:55.4

and that's the subject of spirituality and depression.

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