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The anxiety epidemic : the causes of our modern-day anxieties

Davey, Graham2018
Book
Are we living in an age of unprecedented anxiety, or has this always been a problem throughout history? We only need look around us to see anxieties: in the family home, the workplace, on social media, and especially in the news. It's true that everyone feels anxious at some time in their lives, but we're told we're all feeling more anxious than we've ever been before - and for longer than we've ever done before. It's even reported that anxiety is a modern epidemic significant enough to challenge the dominance of depression as the most common mental health problem. Much of this increase has been attributed to changes in lifestyles that have led to more stress and pressure being placed on people: from childhood, to adolescence, to adulthood. But that's a big claim. Going back over the generations, how anxious were people in 1968 or 1818? Are people just anxious all the time?
Imprint:
London : Robinson, 2018.
Collation:
xi, 388 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781472140968 (pbk)1472140966 (pbk)9781472140951 (ePub ebook)
Dewey class:
616.8522 DAV616.8522
LC class:
RC531
Language:
English
BRN:
325627
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