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In this chapter, Johann discusses how trauma can cause depression, he goes into depth of a study that showed 55 percent of women who were obese were sexual abused as a child/young adult. With this knowledge they used food to make themselves obese so that they wouldn’t be targeted by men. There was also a few statistics about how abuse as a child can cause mental health issues in the future.

So far, in chapter 8, we have talked about how people who are materialistic are more likely to be depressed due to consumerism telling them that they need to get the latest thing to not be a loser. The author had gone into great detail the studies that were done to support this theory.

In Chapter 7 the author discusses loneliness as being one of the many driving factors to mental illness. He also talks about social media and video game addiction which can exasperate the problem.

Introduction: Johann talks about the pills he was prescribed to help with his depression, it was giving him the serotonin he needed to go about his day. Unfortunately this wasn’t a solution at all. He goes into depth about the placebo effect and how it played a massive role in the pharmaceutical industry regarding mental health medication.

Prologue: this goes into detail Johann’s trip to Vietnam to find Vietnam war veterans to interview, while in Hanoi, he ate an apple that almost killed him. His nausea that he experienced was an anagram of the side effects of depression and anxiety. And that in Vietnam they believe nausea is the way the body sends a message