Resource [VIDEO] The 9 Social Causes of Depression

[Ethereal Knight]

"What Causes Depression? What if depression isn't just some brain defect or chemical imbalance, but a message to you that something's not right in your environment or your life? What if depression isn't simply broken neurons firing with depleted serotonin, but an actual signal that there's something that needs to be fixed? That's the hypothesis behind Johan Hari's bestselling book "Lost connections" and in my opinion, there's an element of truth to it. In my last video I discussed how Johan Hari, in his book lost connections, demolishes the overly simplistic idea that depression is just caused by a chemical imbalance. And I discuss how the causes of depression are actually quite a bit more complicated than both the messaging that the pharmaceutical companies were selling, and also the message that Johan was putting out. But that being said, he does an excellent job addressing one side of the common 3 sided approach to depression that most mental health providers adhere to: the bio-psycho-social approach. Meaning that depression and most mental health concerns are a combination of biological, psychological, and social factors. This approach is pretty well research-backed, and Johan does a great job explaining the social factors that contribute to depression. OK, so now we're 70 pages into the book and Johann begins to address what he calls the true causes of depression, the environmental causes of depression. He says The Myth of the Chemical imbalance is comforting, but it's also causes despair – because it convinces us that our pain is meaningless, that it's simply a chemical defect in our brain and there's no logical reason it exists – but that the only logical solution is antidepressant medication, and coping. But he asks the question, what if our pain makes sense? What if pain has meaning? He says your pain does make sense. Pain and depression serve a function, to message you about something not being right in the world(…)"

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