![]() ![]() Investigating that mystery of why antidepressants don’t actually seem to help with depression (despite a widespread increase in both diagnosed depression and prescribed antidepressants) led to this book, where he spent several years talking to researchers around the world and assembled this journalistic summary. He stayed on antidepressants for 13 years, dealing with side effects like weight gain and sexual dysfunction, until his therapist gently nudged him by saying “it seems you are still really quite depressed” despite the antidepressants. Johann Hari was diagnosed with depression as a teenager, and was prescribed the antidepressant Paxil, because his doctor told him that depression was a disease of the brain, so his brain chemistry needed to be fixed. ![]()
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