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Books like The Depression Cure
The best books like The Depression Cure are Lost Connections, Spark, and The Noonday Demon. The Depression Cure by Stephen Ilardi is about depression, lifestyle medicine, mental health. If that's what drew you in, here are 12 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- Lost Connections
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Johann Hari · Health
Lost Connections is Johann Hari's argument that depression and anxiety are not primarily chemical imbalances in the brain but responses to social and environmental conditions — disconnection from meaningful work, close relationships, the natural world, a secure future, and status that feels deserved.
Shares depression and mental health with The Depression Cure.
Read the summary → - Spark
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John J. Ratey · Health
Spark is John Ratey's argument, grounded in neuroscience, that aerobic exercise is the single most powerful thing most people can do for their brain.
Shares mental health and neuroscience with The Depression Cure.
Read the summary → - The Noonday Demon
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Andrew Solomon · Health
The Noonday Demon is Andrew Solomon's exhaustive, literary account of depression — his own experience of it, its science and treatment history, its cultural and political dimensions, and the lives of people living with it across the world.
Shares depression and mental health with The Depression Cure.
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- Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers
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Robert M. Sapolsky · Health
Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers is Robert Sapolsky's definitive popular account of the biology of stress.
Both dig into neuroscience.
Read the summary → - Why We Sleep
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Matthew Walker · Science
Why We Sleep is Matthew Walker's attempt to do for sleep what no amount of public health messaging has managed: make people genuinely afraid of what they're losing.
Shares mental health and neuroscience with The Depression Cure.
Read the summary → - How to Change Your Mind
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Michael Pollan · Science
Michael Pollan came to psychedelics late in life, as a skeptic.
Shares mental health and neuroscience with The Depression Cure.
Read the summary → - Reasons to Stay Alive
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Matt Haig · Memoir
Reasons to Stay Alive is Matt Haig's account of the severe depression and anxiety disorder he experienced in his mid-twenties, and how he survived it, returned to functioning, and eventually to something he could call a good life.
Shares depression and mental health with The Depression Cure.
Read the summary → - Anticancer: A New Way of Life
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David Servan-Schreiber · Health
Anticancer is David Servan-Schreiber's account of his own experience with brain cancer, diagnosed when he was thirty-one, and what he learned over fifteen years about the lifestyle and environmental factors that feed or suppress tumor growth.
Both dig into lifestyle medicine.
Read the summary → - In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts
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Gabor Maté · Health
In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts is Gabor Maté's book about addiction, written while he was working as a physician in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, one of North America's most concentrated pockets of poverty, drug use, and homelessness.
Both dig into neuroscience.
Read the summary → - Scattered Minds
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Gabor Maté · Health
Scattered Minds, originally published as Scattered, is Gabor Maté's account of ADHD seen through the lens of his own diagnosis and his decades of clinical practice.
Both dig into neuroscience.
Read the summary → - Super Genes
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Deepak Chopra · Health
Super Genes, written by Deepak Chopra and neuroscientist Rudolph Tanzi, is organized around a single provocative claim: the human genome is not the fixed blueprint most people imagine but a dynamic system that responds continuously to lifestyle inputs.
Both dig into lifestyle medicine.
Read the summary → - The Healing Self
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Deepak Chopra · Health
The Healing Self, written by Deepak Chopra with molecular biologist Rudolph Tanzi, argues that the most powerful medicine available to most people is not pharmaceutical but behavioral: the daily choices that regulate inflammation, immune function, gene expression, and neurological health.
Both dig into lifestyle medicine.
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Books like The Depression Cure: quick answers
What are the best books like The Depression Cure?
The best books like The Depression Cure by Stephen Ilardi are Lost Connections by Johann Hari, Spark by John J. Ratey, The Noonday Demon by Andrew Solomon, Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers by Robert M. Sapolsky, Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with The Depression Cure, such as depression, lifestyle medicine, mental health.
What should I read after The Depression Cure?
A natural next read after The Depression Cure is Lost Connections by Johann Hari. Shares depression and mental health with The Depression Cure. Other strong choices are Spark by John J. Ratey, The Noonday Demon by Andrew Solomon, Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers by Robert M. Sapolsky.
What books are similar to The Depression Cure by Stephen Ilardi?
The Depression Cure centers on depression, lifestyle medicine, mental health. Books with a similar feel include Lost Connections by Johann Hari, Spark by John J. Ratey, The Noonday Demon by Andrew Solomon, Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers by Robert M. Sapolsky, Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker, How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
