Many of the claims made in the book seem to rely on anecdote and individual studies.
The book provides a vague model pointing towards how we should think about depression differently, and even some specific causes to look at, but there’s clearly some big gaps in the supporting evidence, and there’s not much concrete advice that a depressed person won’t have considered before (“maybe you would be less depressed if you made friends, or had more money”). It’s not really fully fleshed out and supported, nor is it a good self-help guide. It also presents some interesting possible solutions for solving depression in one’s own life and solving depression as a social, collective-action problem.
This book asserts that most of us are thinking about depression in a fundamentally wrong way, which would be very important if true. For instance, 34% of SSC readers said they were diagnosed or thought they had it in 2020 ( source). Well, it's about depression, which is generally interesting to LW readers.
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