Undoing Perpetual Stress: The Missing Connection Between Depression, Anxiety and 21stcentury Illness

ISBN-13: 9780425207697 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 544 str.

Richard O'Connor

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Our brains weren t built for this. Twenty-first-century life evolves at a breakneck pace and with it, stress seems to multiply by the day. We work long, harrowing hours. We fret over our families and finances. Our e-mail beeps and our cell phones ring. But our nervous systems were never meant to handle so many stressors. In this groundbreaking book, psychotherapist Richard O Connor explains how a wide range of common problems both emotional and physical are actually side effects of modern life, and how you can undo their damage. Combining expertise with down-to-earth language, Undoing Perpetual Stress explains how you can

• recognize the hidden effects of stress on your brain and body
• understand your inner sanity in conflict with a crazy world
• develop self-control over how you think, act and feel when stressed
• regain a sense of meaning and purpose in your life

You already know how to do stress. With the help of this book, you can undo it, too."