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Johann Hari Quotes

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“Blaming yourself for your childhood traumas protects you from seeing how vulnerable you were and are. You can become the powerful one. If it’s your fault, it’s ― at some strange level ― under your control.”
— Johann Hari, The Real Causes Of Depression Have Been Discovered, And They're Not What You Think
Tagged: Child Abuse, Psychology, Psychological Trauma, Defense Mechanisms
“So instead of seeing your depression and anxiety as a form of madness, I would tell my younger self — you need to see the sanity in this sadness. You need to see that it makes sense.”
— Johann Hari, Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression – and the Unexpected Solutions
Tagged: Depression, real causes, Chemicals
“The act of releasing your shame is – in itself – healing.”
— Johann Hari, The Real Causes Of Depression Have Been Discovered, And They're Not What You Think
Tagged: Healing, Healing From Childhood Trauma, Shameless
“ One woman said she put on weight after she was raped because “overweight is overlooked, and that’s the way I need to be.” It turned out many of these women had been making themselves obese for an unconscious reason: to protect themselves from the attention of men, who they believed would hurt them.”
— Johann Hari, The Real Causes Of Depression Have Been Discovered, And They're Not What You Think
Tagged: Rape, Survivor Stories, Obesity
“I kept noticing a self-help cliché that people say to each other all the time, and share on Facebook incessantly. We say to each other: “Nobody can help you except you.” It made me realize: we haven’t just started doing things alone more, in every decade since the 1930s. We have started to believe that doing things alone is the natural state of human beings, and the only way to advance.”
— Johann Hari, Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression – and the Unexpected Solutions
Tagged: How To Think, Depression, Anxiety, Connection, social isolation
“The Internet was born into a world where many people had already lost their sense of connection to each other. The collapse had already been taking place for decades by then. The web arrived offering them a kind of parody of what they were losing—Facebook friends in place of neighbors, video games in place of meaningful work, status updates in place of status in the world. The comedian Marc Maron once wrote that “every status update is a just a variation on a single request: ‘Would someone please acknowledge me?”
— Johann Hari, Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression – and the Unexpected Solutions
Tagged: Anxiety, Depression, Internet, Connection
“As Felitti spoke to the 183 people in the program, he found 55 percent had been sexually abused. One woman said she put on weight after she was raped because 'overweight is overlooked, and that’s the way I need to be.' It turned out many of these women had been making themselves obese for an unconscious reason: to protect themselves from the attention of men, who they believed would hurt them. Felitti suddenly realized: What we had perceived as the problem ― major obesity ― was in fact, very frequently, the solution to problems that the rest of us knew nothing about.”
— Johann Hari, Opinion | The Real Causes Of Depression Have Been Discovered, And They're Not What You Think
Tagged: How To Think, Philosophy, Psychology, Subconscious, desires, Needs, Sexual Abuse, Rape, Women
“The more I investigated depression and anxiety, the more I found that, far from being caused by a spontaneously malfunctioning brain, depression and anxiety are mostly being caused by events in our lives. If you find your work meaningless and you feel you have no control over it, you are far more likely to become depressed. If you are lonely and feel that you can’t rely on the people around you to support you, you are far more likely to become depressed. If you think life is all about buying things and climbing up the ladder, you are far more likely to become depressed. If you think your future will be insecure, you are far more likely to become depressed. I started to find a whole blast of scientific evidence that depression and anxiety are not caused in our skulls, but by the way many of us are being made to live. There are real biological factors, like your genes, that can make you significantly more sensitive to these causes, but they are not the primary drivers.”
— Johann Hari, The Real Causes Of Depression Have Been Discovered, And They're Not What You Think
Tagged: Mental Health, Psychology
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