书籍介绍
当抗抑郁药治不好你的抑郁，当'化学物质失衡'的解释让你束手无策，这本书把矛头指向了一个更刺眼的答案：抑郁或许不是你的错，也不是你大脑的错，而是我们这个时代病症的症候。作者没有像多数自助书那样高呼'只有你能救自己'，反而固执地主张——治愈个人，需要整个社会行动。它最见功力的地方，是拆解'抑郁症=大脑故障'这套叙事的逻辑漏洞：从亲人离世即被贴上临床抑郁标签、强开精神类药物，到广告被称作'精神污染'。但也要坦白：部分读者觉得它结论先于探究，故事穿插略显冗长。因此它适合那些不愿被'吃药就好'敷衍、愿意把痛苦放回社会语境重新打量的人；若期待一本严谨中立的学术著作，或许会略感失望。
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核心看点
- 挑战抑郁症仅由化学失衡导致的传统观点
- 提出导致抑郁的九大社会与心理成因
- 主张通过修复社会连接来治愈心灵创伤
读者共识
- 深刻揭示抑郁症是时代病症，而非单纯个人问题
- 案例丰富且具启发性，但后半部分解决方案略显空泛
- 有效破除药物万能迷思，提供理解痛苦的新视角
精彩摘录
- "As I talked with many depressed or severely anxious people, I noticed that they often described a similar sensation. One friend told me that she always knew her depression was lifting when she felt her sense of time expanding again—she would find herself able to think about where she would be a mont"
- "Many scientists and psychologists had been presenting depression as an irrational malfunction in your brain or in your genes, but he learned that Allen Barbour, an internist at Stanford University,15 had said that depression isn’t a disease; depression is a normal response to abnormal life experienc"
- "As she treated many people who had gone through experiences like hers, she noticed something peculiar. Very soon after they went through the death of a loved one, lots of her patients were being diagnosed by psychiatrists with clinical depression, and being given very powerful psychiatric drugs. 在治疗"
- "I kept getting signals that the way to be happy is simple. Buy stuff. Show it off. Display your status. Acquire things. These impulses called to me, from every advertisement, and from so many social interactions. But Tim, I learned, has been proposing two ways, as starters, to wriggle free. The firs"
- "Early in the twenty-first century, a South African psychiatrist named Dr. Derek Summerfield landed in Cambodia, in a stretch of countryside that looked like all the clichés of South Asia you’ve ever seen—peaceful rice paddies rippling to the far horizon. Most people there were subsistence rice farme"
- "Dr. Rufus May, a British psychologist, told me that telling people their distress is due mostly or entirely to a biological malfunction has several dangerous effects on them. 英国心理学家鲁弗斯·梅博士告诉我，告诉人们他们的痛苦主要或完全是由于生物功能失常会对他们产生一些危险的影响。 The first thing that happens when you’re told this is “you leave the p"
- "In the 1990s, Irving Kirsch sat in his book-lined office and told his patients they should take antidepressants. But Irving was also one of the leading experts in the world in a field of science that came to be known as the placebo effect. So when one of his graduate students, a young Israeli named "
- "You can picture it crudely as a division between, on one side, a patient lying on a sofa in front of the founder of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud, and on the other side, a dissected brain. The Freudians had been arguing for almost a century that the explanation for this kind of distress could only b"
用户评论
带着几乎心知肚明的预设去读这本书，会有些略微的失望。作者的探究过程像一场先入为主的学术研究，看标题和梗概就差不多猜到结论的那种。
三月在一个豆瓣帖子中发现的，于是去找了作者的演讲，听了一半就下单了这本书。总体感觉一般，但其中关于抗抑郁药物对抑郁没啥用的部分，以及我以前所认为的抑郁是大脑内化学物质不平衡造成的这个错误信息的指出让这本书非常值得。因为经常看到某平台有用户在分享吃抗抑郁药物的内容，于是我就在某平台上分享了书里的内容，希望能有更多人看到，少走弯路。其中有一个价值观的引导，这部分我不太喜欢，另外一些是我自己从抑郁自愈中总结出来的经验。有相符合的地方。所以总体给四星。
当长期服用抗抑郁药也无法抵抗焦虑与抑郁时，还能做些什么？作者的很多观点对于一般人来说可能是常识，但对于抑郁患者来说确是非常难的推进工程。 不喜欢作者在论述中频繁地插入故事，但喜欢他的自我理解和鼓励。
是一本有很强大精神内核支撑的纪实。作者很勇敢，充满生命力。
虽然没有宣传的那么Radical，但还是挺好读的
非常精彩，类似于精神ptsd
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