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Non-Fiction

mnhtnbb

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2. " if only we were good people, all this would go away"

Reply to DonCoquixote (Reply #1)

Wed Sep 18, 2019, 02:51 AM

Sep 2019

That is not even close to where the author is headed with the book.

Really, I would encourage you to read the book. It is tremendously well researched. There is a lot of money--billions of dollars---at stake in the pharmaceutical industry promoting the concept that depression is only biological. The research says otherwise.

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Just finished Johann Hari's book, Lost Connections [View all] mnhtnbb Sep 2019 OP

it is one thing to say that culture can make depression worse DonCoquixote Sep 2019 #1

" if only we were good people, all this would go away" mnhtnbb Sep 2019 #2

I've had my eye on that title for a while. PETRUS Sep 2019 #3