num_pages: 544
description: 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 canrecognize the hidden effects of stress on your brain and bodyunderstand your inner sanity in conflict with a crazy worlddevelop self-control over how you think, act and feel when stressedregain a sense of meaning and purpose in your lifeYou already know how to "do" stress. With the help of this book, you can undo it, too.
language: English
title: Undoing Perpetual Stress: The Missing Connection Between Depression, Anxiety and 21st Century Illness
titlecomplete: Undoing Perpetual Stress: The Missing Connection Between Depression, Anxiety and 21st Century Illness
genres: Mental Health, Psychology, Nonfiction, Health, Science, Self Help
ratings_count: 90
publisher: Berkley Books