Sublime

They both, he said, break our “addiction to ourselves.”

Disempowerment,” Michael told me, “is at the heart12 of poor health”—physical, mental, and emotional.

There’s a house fire inside many of us,14 Vincent had come to believe, and we’ve been concentrating on the smoke.

We are living, she has come to believe, in a culture where people are not “getting the connections that they need in order to be healthy human beings,” and that is why we can’t put down our smartphones, or bear to log off.

What if changing the way we live—in specific, targeted, evidence-based ways—could be seen as an antidepressant, too?

The more unequal your society, the more prevalent all forms of mental illness are.

“social bonds”—it’s