Reddit reviews Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression – and the Unexpected Solutions

(Bracing for the downvotes to oblivion....)

The problem with this theory is that there isn't a ton of evidence that it's true or that SSRI's work. For example:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2412901/

https://www.amazon.com/Lost-Connections-Uncovering-Depression-Unexpected-ebook/dp/B07583XJRW

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One writer suggests in a talk that "depression is a signal that our deepest needs are not being met."

Given your daughter's age, and the importance of socializing, perhaps she feels lonely because she's excluded from social groups.

Hari has a book that goes more into it. Note that I haven't read the book, nor am I endorsing it.

It's simply another perspective on an issue your daughter may be facing, and that is a growing concern worldwide.

The guest is liberal, which precludes him from understanding some fundamental issues. However he does make some good observations when talking about his book Lost Connections. As an example he shows how we're becoming an increasingly depressed society and the problems aren't strictly a "chemical imbalance". The reason why we're becoming depressed is because things we had connection to and need to be happy are becoming eroded. Unfortunately he doesn't come to accept the ultimate extrapolation that we are hardwired to be amongst our own people and there are currently laws in place that disallow natural gravitational forces to operate, such as the fair housing act. People should be allowed to elect themselves into mixed or unmixed societies. And right now we have a dictatorship of the syncretic that doesn't recognize the category of non-supremacist ethnic enclaves along the lines of ethno-pluralism as an alternative to "multi-culturalism".

I've read the article author's book, and if you're interested in the social factors that go into producing depression it's a really interesting read.

Lost Connections by Johan Hari is the most interesting thing I have seen recently on Depression.

If you like to read books, I have heard this book has helped a lot of people.

Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression - and the Unexpected Solutions https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07583XJRW/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_f8WxDb7DE5Q57

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B07583XJRW/ref=tmm_kin_title_0?ie=UTF8&qid=&sr=

I really like what this guy is saying about depression and the non medicated ways to manage it. It’s a shame this sub is so anti anything other than medicine. People will legit downvote you for saying that diet and excercise have a huge impact on mental health.

> The thing is that you can take those pressures away to prevent it, it's purely social pressures causing it.

Exactly, and therein lies the actual solution to most suicides, understanding them as inherently social and even political phenomena with social and political solutions, and not bouts of inexplicable insanity to be medicated or emotionally manipulated away.

>There's a reason people with loving families and friends can still kill themselves despite having supposedly ideal lives.

The "reason" is that to them, those lives were not "ideal" at all, they were only ideal by the elite's utilitarian standards. They felt their own lives were quite worthless, and that, again, if they couldn't be what they ought to be, there's no actual point in continuing to live. Our society is deeply dysfunctional in that it encourages these kinds of empty lives due to the way it is organized on alienating principles of individualism, status-competition, institutional discipline, and materialism. The elites that benefits from this dehumanizing world don't want to change it, and so they frame these kinds of self-destructive personal protests against it as mere "insanity" and not what they truly are.