Our August Book Club Pick: Lost Connections by Johann Hari
[vc_row][vc_column column_width_percent=”80″ align_horizontal=”align_center” overlay_alpha=”50″ gutter_size=”3″ medium_width=”0″ mobile_width=”0″ shift_x=”0″ shift_y=”0″ shift_y_down=”0″ z_index=”0″ width=”1/1″][vc_column_text]With the abundance of incredible books on the topic of mental illness and mental health, we’ve launched our #BraveBookClub to celebrate some of our favorite reads with our This Is My Brave family.
“Reading was one way I found stories from individuals dealing with the exact same thing I was facing and reading their stories helped me to better understand my condition,” Jennifer Marshall shared. “Memoirs written by individuals living with bipolar disorder, like Kay Jamison’s An Unquiet Mind, taught me that it was possible to lead a fulfilling life despite this life-long diagnosis.”
Each month, This Is My Brave will select a book as the monthly pick, and it will be announced in our e-newsletter at the start of the month. If you’re not already subscribed, now is a great time to sign up to stay in the loop on what we’re reading![/vc_column_text][vc_button button_color=”accent” border_width=”0″ link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fus7.admin.mailchimp.com%2Flists%2Fdesigner%2F%3Fid%3D102589||target:%20_blank|”]Join our e-newsletter![/vc_button][vc_column_text]For August our selection is Lost Connections by Johann Hari.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]
“Anyone who has ever struggled with depression or anxiety should read this book. It reveals the real truth about what has led us to this crisis as a society and how we can turn things around. My hope is that everyone will pick up this book because I believe it has the power to save lives, quite possibly the life of someone you love.” – Jennifer Marshall, Executive Director of This Is My Brave
From the Amazon.com description of the book:
The New York Times bestseller from the author of Chasing the Scream, offering a radical new way of thinking about depression and anxiety.
There was a mystery haunting award-winning investigative journalist Johann Hari. He was thirty-nine years old, and almost every year he had been alive, depression and anxiety had increased in Britain and across the Western world. Why?
He had a very personal reason to ask this question. When he was a teenager, he had gone to his doctor and explained that he felt like pain was leaking out of him, and he couldn’t control it or understand it. Some of the solutions his doctor offered had given him some relief―but he remained in deep pain.
So, as an adult, he went on a forty-thousand-mile journey across the world to interview the leading experts about what causes depression and anxiety, and what solves them. He learned there is scientific evidence for nine different causes of depression and anxiety―and that this knowledge leads to a very different set of solutions: ones that offer real hope.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
